The Liaison's Role in Serving Agriculture &amp; Life Sciences Information Users: A Review of the Literature

Simonsen, Jennifer E.

doi:10.1080/10496505.2014.982753

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“…Extension agents are commonly located throughout the state at county offices, sometimes known as unit offices, rather than at the main campus of their university. This creates an additional challenge when attempting to provide information literacy instruction to a group that requires highquality, authoritative information in a short amount of time to address their constituents' needs (Simonsen, 2015). Furthermore, the techniques needed to find and disseminate information are not a skill set that extension agents can afford to assume is static (Jernigan, Edgar, Miller, & Cox, 2015).…”

Section: Extension Agentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information Literacy Instruction Programs: Supporting the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Community at Virginia Tech

DeBose¹,

Haugen²,

Miller³

2017

Library Trends

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When developing instructional programs related to information literacy at a university, a logical audience to focus on is undergraduates. However, information literacy spans far beyond the traditional ability to find, access, evaluate, use, and properly cite information. It also encompasses the ability to evaluate the impact of scholarship, determine appropriate data-management practices, understand author rights, promote ethical use of scholarship, and maintain an awareness of changes in scholarly communication. Between 2010 and 2016 librarians at Virginia Tech have focused on developing programs to strengthen several of these information literacy skills across the continuum of students, faculty, and extension agents in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). Starting with undergraduates, traditional information literacy skills were incorporated into the two CALS First-Year Experience programs. A scientific writing workshop and online information literacy course were designed for CALS graduate students. Extension agents and faculty were introduced to both traditional and more advanced applications to explore how changes in the information landscape impacts their work. This paper will discuss how these librarians have partnered to create and promote these information literacy initiatives.

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Section: Extension Agentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information Literacy Instruction Programs: Supporting the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Community at Virginia Tech

DeBose¹,

Haugen²,

Miller³

2017

Library Trends

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“…The potential roles of agricultural librarians, and liaison librarians generally, continue to expand and may include providing instruction, managing collections, advising on scholarly communication issues, and consulting on research data challenges (Simonsen 2015). Ideally, liaison librarians approach these roles based on the culture and needs of the discipline (Gaines 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural Researchers' Attitudes Toward Open Access and Data Sharing

Williams¹,

Farrell

Kerby³

et al. 2019

ISTL

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This study involved a thorough examination of attitudes and opinions of agricultural researchers toward open access publishing and data sharing. Utilizing the results of the Ithaka S+R Agriculture Research Support Services project, we reanalyzed our institutional interview transcripts and synthesized information from the project's publicly available reports. For comparison, we also searched and coded scientific and library literature. Our findings reveal common attitudes related to open access publishing and data sharing and point to potential roles for libraries to help address common impediments, such as lack of trust, time, and money. Overall, this study provides disciplinary context that can inform how librarians approach agricultural researchers about open access publishing and data sharing.

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“…To be able to serve all possible communities, it is necessary to understand how different users find and use a wide variety of types of information. The broad array of disciplines; academic users with teaching, research, and extension information needs; external users with very different information-seeking behavior; and the rise of new specialties all create a unique environment for agricultural librarians, perceived as both overwhelming challenges and potential opportunities (Simonsen, 2015).…”

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Agricultural Librarians Becoming Informationists: A Paradigm Shift

Bracke¹

2017

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Librarian liaisons to the agricultural sciences offer many traditional services, such as teaching classes, purchasing materials, managing collections, and providing guidance on scholarly communication issues. Data management and data literacy instruction are two emerging service opportunities for agricultural librarians to develop new roles and work with researchers to set standards and meet data management needs within the disciplinary context. Taking advantage of these opportunities will require new skills, shifts in attitudes, and increased interaction with the students and faculty to understand their needs and provide timely and appropriate services. This paper proposes creating new strategies, expectations, and opportunities for agricultural librarianship by constructing a new model based on the informationist. The informationist, developed in medical librarianship, offers a model for creating highly engaged liaison services. Within a medical context the informationist is an extension of the traditional model of librarian engagement in which an information professional is embedded within clinical and research settings. Librarians can have an impact outside of the traditional library contexts by developing new skills and strategies for librarians working in the agricultural sciences. The informationist model also provides the opportunity to act as a direct collaborator in the creation of new methodologies in the field, such as systematic reviews.

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The Liaison's Role in Serving Agriculture & Life Sciences Information Users: A Review of the Literature

Cited by 5 publications

References 39 publications

Information Literacy Instruction Programs: Supporting the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Community at Virginia Tech

Information Literacy Instruction Programs: Supporting the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Community at Virginia Tech

Agricultural Researchers' Attitudes Toward Open Access and Data Sharing

Agricultural Librarians Becoming Informationists: A Paradigm Shift

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