Collaborating with services outside the Library: Enhancing experience and building on expertise [Northern Collaboration Conference]

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Sally Dalton and I facilitated this short paper session at the Northern Collaboration Conference at the University of Hull, September 6th 2019.

Education

Collaborating with services outside the
Library: Enhancing experience and
building on expertise
Sally Dalton @SallyDalton18
Kirsten Thompson @iamKirstenT
University of Leeds

Library Research
Support Team
Organisational
Development &
Professional Learning
Both teams
support
Postgraduate
Researchers and
research staff
Open access
Literature searching
Research data
Research visibility
Bibliometric/Altmetrics
Endnote
PGR programme
Student education practice
Digital practice
Research practice
Leadership
Professional development

What did we do?
• Workshops covering:
• Increasing online engagement with
your research
• Using social media
• Altmetrics
• Bespoke activities
Launched hashtag:
#WhyResearchersTweet

What are the benefits and challenges of
collaborating?
• Discuss with the person next to you for 2 mins and then
share on Menti.
• Go to menti.com on your device and enter the code

Benefits: our experiences
• Draw upon someone else's expertise
• Expose you to new ways of thinking and working
• Build upon our own knowledge and expertise
• Offer a better service to our customers
• Improve communication across teams
• Great to work with partner services
• Signposting relevant provision

Challenges: our experiences
• Relying on finding individuals willing to collaborate (ie not
driven by strategy)
• Attempting to fill gaps in provision without additional
resource
• Increasing knowledge in short timescale (also a benefit)

Are there other services within your institutions
who are supporting PGRs and research staff?

Our future plans
• Exploring ways of scaling our collaborations – what can we
deliver online?
• Continue to test new provision e.g. Open Access Week
• Continue to work towards building collaborations into
strategic activity.
• Microsoft Teams

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