Cara Bradley - University of Regina
Let's Give Them Something to Talk About: Sharing
Librarians' Research Beyond Professional Boundaries
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pursuit of research interests one of the motivators for working in an academic institution
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pivotal event in her career
when applying for grant funding
- question about librarian
research - value and impact
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research on curiousity, what drives
your passion, what peaked your curiousity
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question why don't others think of
librarians as researchers
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are our interests of interest
to anyone else besides ourselves
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the importance of reaching out
to the non-librarian faculty
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striking overlap of the
information goals of non-librarians and the information literacy goals of
librarians
- how do we become known as researchers in our
right, as having something to contribute to the overall research table
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Cara gave us a task: raise
awareness with non-librarian folk:
- at Saskatchewan Polytechnic - research grand rounds, share research interests to all campuses, via teleconference
- involvement in conference outside librarianship, participate in blogs and other social media avenues
- informal conversations with researcher, scholars, students
- discover researcher across campus who can work as collaborators based on similar research interests
- how you talk about your researcher to non-librarian folks, how you sell yourself, your field and your research
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so why do we care? we need to be viewed as equals across campus,
author fees if you want to publish in an open access journal, big research
requires funding - so the question of validity, value, impact of librarian
research
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the purpose of evidence based
librarianship: finding and creating evidence largely through conducting
research; also to use the evidence to inform decisions and change
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