‘Ask the Audience: Identifying what library services are important to the research community at DCU’ - Jack Hyland & Lisa Callaghan (Dublin City University)
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The document discusses identifying important library services for the research community at Dublin City University (DCU) through a faculty survey. Key findings include: - 76% of respondents had contact with a librarian in the last 6 months. - 86% felt having a designated library contact was important. - Research workshops, online information literacy instruction, and one-to-one research consultations were highly valued across faculties. - The top 3 most important services varied by faculty, such as designated contacts, collection development, and in-class instruction.
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‘Ask the Audience: Identifying what library services are important to the research community at DCU’ - Jack Hyland & Lisa Callaghan (Dublin City University)
- 1. Ask the Audience: Identifying what library services are important to the research community at DCU Lisa Callaghan Jack Hyland Dublin City University
- 3. • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences expanded – new: • School of History and Geography • School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music • Institute of Education
- 5. • Associate director • 5 subject librarians, 1 SLA • Research Communications Service 2 FTE • Education librarian • New role of 2nd HSS librarian Research and Teaching
- 7. • Re-skilling for Research (Auckland) • New Roles for New Times: Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries (Jaguszewski) • Subject vs. functional: Should subject librarians be replaced by functional specialists in academic libraries? (Pinfield) • Articles by John Cox on NUI Galway’s experience • ANLTC seminar: The changing role of the Subject Librarian Changes in in faculty engagement
- 8. 1. Traditional liaison/subject librarians 2. Functional specialists 3. Hybrid / matrix Choices
- 10. • Based on US survey • http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent. cgi?article=1000&context=morris_surveys • Priorities not satisfaction • Faculty variations • January 2017 – 2 weeks • Email to all Schools/Faculties
- 11. Humanities & Social Science Science & Health Institute of Education DCU Business School Computing &Engineering Other (Incl Open Education) 182 Respondents 33% 27% 20% 9% 7% 4% DCU Library Faculty Survey Results
- 12. Last time you had contact with a Librarian • 76% in last 6 months • 43% in last month (Institute of Education 62%) • Faculty of Engineering & Computing 38% more than a year ago Is a designated library contact important? • 86% very important or important • Business School 100% Advice/support in acquiring, managing and evaluating library resources • 88% very important or important • 98% when moderately important considered
- 13. • 66% very important or important • 70% Education 15% Eng & Comp One to one research consultations –Staff One to one research consultations – Students Consultation on integrating IL into the curriculum In-class & Online Library Instruction • Almost equally valued (80% in-class & 82% online) • Further supported in comments • 76% very important or important • 38% Eng & Comp • 80% very important or important Liaison/Teaching
- 14. Workshops for staff and researchers 90% Systematic Reviews 82% Scholarly communications/ publishing 84% 54% Eng&Comp Open Access/ DORAS 76% Data management planning76% Reporting on scholarly impact outputs 71% University Press Monographs 50% University Press Journals44% 45% Eng&Comp Business 100% 94% incl moderately important 73% Sci&Health 70% Education 80% Human & Soc Sci 73% Education Research Priorities 96% incl moderately important
- 15. DCU Business School Designated Library Contact Online IL Instruction Research Workshops Institute of Education Support for Systematic Reviews In-class instruction Research Workshops Engineering & Computing Online IL Instruction -Research Workshops -Systematic Rev Collection Development Humanities & Social Sciences - Committee Rep -Collect develop -Online IL One to one research consultations Designated Library Contact Science & Health Research Workshops Designated Library Contact Collection Development Top 3 very important/important per faculty
- 16. Designated contact • Top 3 for 3 Faculties Workshops for staff researchers • Expanded programme • Bibliometrics, DMP, Copyright, Systematics Reviews Online Information Literacy • Top T&L Priority for 4 out of 5 Faculties • Review offering Collection Development • Continues to be valued