Creating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic
Library: Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff
focuses on research infrastructures, bringing together such topics
as research and development in libraries, dataset management,
e-science, grants and grant writing, digital scholarship, data
management, library as publisher, web archiving, and the research
lifecycle. Individual chapters deal with the formation of Research
& Development teams; emerging scholarly forms and new
collaborative approaches to knowledge creation, dissemination, and
preservation; managing small databases requiring the same level of
support as large databases: metadata, digital preservation and
curation, and technical support. Motivation for such services is
provided in a chapter that considers how assessment and data now
drive decisions and new services in higher education in general and
academic libraries in particular and how statistical data can help
to tell stories, make decisions, and move in new directions.
Conceptualization of the research process also receives attention
through the presentation of a research lifecycle in the university
environment with the library as an integral partner and leader.
Also, a topic that is increasingly important: the library as
publisher, with new institutional repositories tied to journal
creation, curation, and management is examined with a discussion of
the workflow and expertise necessary for the library to be
successful and responsive to the research needs of its institution,
and become a leader in providing publishing services to its
faculty. A related topic, Web archiving in libraries is explored in
a chapter that includes discussions on the process of establishing
buy-in and legal permission, the policies and procedures, and the
technology necessary for its success. All of these efforts require
funding and chapters are included that address this need: finding
funding outside of the university for support of the library is now
a necessary and vital part of academic libraries: guidelines and
steps for how to write a grant and be successful at obtaining
outside funds. A second chapter deals with the problem of
developing a grant-seeking culture in the library, what some of the
barriers are to the grant-writing process and how to create a
reward system for a grant-writing culture. The volume concludes
with two case studies related to implementing research data
management services at two liberal arts colleges. They demonstrate
that the integration of data management services for undergraduate
and faculty research in liberal arts colleges is just as important
as it is for the large research universities, and that new service
models should be incorporated so that all librarians and library
staff participate in this integration in their duties and
responsibilities. It is hoped that this volume, and the series in
general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the
discussions and planning surrounding the future directions,
services, and careers in the twenty-first-century academic library.
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