‘Making a Difference in the Research Community’: South Africa's Library Academy Experience and the Researcher–Librarian Relationship

Darch, Colin; Jager, Karin de

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2012.03.017

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“…In response to these findings, UCT and two other top ranked university libraries in South Africa, applied for and were granted funding by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for an extended project to enhance librarians’ insight into the nature of research and their capacity to support research activities among both emerging and established researchers. The grant was renewed in 2009 and was expanded to include a further three research-intense universities (Darch and De Jager 2012: 145).…”

Section: The Research Landscapementioning

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“…The second week then focused on… what librarians need to do to support researchers, especially in a South African context where post-graduates may not have completely mastered necessary technical skills. Topics covered would include the nature of subject or domain knowledge, genre; how to publish a paper; bibliometrics; data sets and how to conserve them; archives; research ethics; intellectual property and research motivation (Darch and De Jager, 2012:147).…”

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“…These academies were subjected to both formative and summative review and evaluation (Darch and De Jager, 2012). In terms of these evaluations it was possible to confirm the assumption that intensive interventions such as these could have a meaningful influence on the way in which librarians worked and interacted with researchers in their institutions.…”

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confidence: 99%

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This is a report and evaluation of a project specifically intended to enhance mid-career librarians' understanding of the research process, to encourage their willingness and ability to support research in their own libraries and to motivate them to participate in the knowledge production enterprise in their own institutions. Outcomes of the project were viewed through the lens of change theory to see whether any demonstrable changes had been effected. The programme was conducted with 25 participants in July 2012 and focused on the research landscape and scholarly communication in South Africa, and on an understanding of the challenges inherent in the world of the researcher. The skills sets required of research librarians were identified, and opportunities were provided for participants to participate in some of them. Participants' feedback was requested after each presentation and an online exit survey was completed in participants own time shortly after the programme. Further evaluations were conducted six and 15 months after the intervention and the results are discussed. From the findings it was possible to conclude that a project such as this could produce some evidence of actual knowledge production as well as enhance collaboration between librarians and researchers.

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“…In today's situation, the librarian are being tasked to aid their patrons with this challenges and knowledge (Benson, 1995;Darch & De Jager, 2012;Ekkebus, 1985). A very big challenge for them, especially on the other side of the institution, it is another situation.…”

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Harvesting Scholarly Communication Padi Seeds via Mendeley Institutional Edition for Your Academic Libraries

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2013

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With the advent of internet technologies in today's information science landscape, a number of researchers and scholars are using new media into their professional communication and scholarly work. This action shifted the patterns in using beyond than just a reference management tool and place a challenge in library science's service on the reflection of new demographic pool's patrons behavior and usage in using the library's model. Librarians have to keep up on their toes, with these attributes in acquiring knowledge, tools, resources and operations to serve a unique information service model to their patrons, especially in academic and research libraries. Understanding the needs of the librarians, here at Swets, the partnership with Mendeley aims to set a milestone ahead to aid and provide a strategic alignment model for their on-progress challenging model. Together, in this paper, the illustration will focus on the discussion topic to invest and align strategically, a tool that is designed to be part of the ecological cycle in current scholarly communication lifestyle. Mendeley is not only build for a basic reference management tools to aid academics and researchers (or even undergraduate) in their daily academic writing. But, that will be beyond than just a scholar's imagination. This includes topics as access, visible, preserve, collaborate, share, knowledge transfer, mobile and openness. This is because Mendeley rides on the open science concept, indirectly immerse the usage of the product in part of a scholar's life in a university. This will seeds a good, positive seeding investment for librarians and research managers to look beyond the basic service model, along with the other productive competitive services and platforms, especially for Malaysia's and South East Asia's library and information science industry to leverage for the future in open science development.

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“…The information specialists do not have subject expertise relevant to the units they serve. Darch and De Jager (2012).…”

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Information Behavior and Expectations of Veterinary Researchers and Their Requirements for Academic Library Services

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Fourie

2016

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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‘Making a Difference in the Research Community’: South Africa's Library Academy Experience and the Researcher–Librarian Relationship

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Developing a new librarian

Harvesting Scholarly Communication Padi Seeds via Mendeley Institutional Edition for Your Academic Libraries

Information Behavior and Expectations of Veterinary Researchers and Their Requirements for Academic Library Services

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