اسلایدهای کارگاه کتابدار پژوهشی ارایه شده در کارگاه مرکز هماهنگی و توسعه پژوهش دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تبریز

1. Research
Librarian
Dr. M. Abdekhoda
Assistance professor in health information management. Department of Medical library and
information sciences. School of health management and medical informatics. Tabriz University of
medical sciences. Tabriz, Iran.
IN THE NAME OF OMNIPOTENT GOD

2. Agenda
 Research librarians definition
 Research librarian work setting
 Why research librarian?
 The Role of Information in Research
 Librarians are information managers
 Integrating Librarians Into Biomedical Research
 Threats of Research librarian
 Being and becoming a research librarian

4. Research Librarian
 Research librarians analyze information requests to
determine which materials will best meet that
researcher's needs.
 These librarians collect, organize and classify books,
journals, audio visual and other materials relevant to
their area of subject specialization.

5. Research Librarian (Cont.)
 These librarians may also work with outside groups or
committees to determine the needs of the research
library in terms of acquiring books and other
information materials.
 Librarians must also be adept at using computers,
doing online research, and creating and maintaining
electronic databases

6. Work Settings
 Research librarians work in a variety of settings, including
libraries focused on medical or legal research, or in government
libraries.
 These librarians organize and collect materials focused on these
particular subjects and serve professionals in those fields.
 A research librarian may also work for a library that serves a
particular organization. For example, a librarian at a large art
museum might curate and maintain research materials that are
of interest to the staff of that museum.

7. Why research librarian?
 Because :
 Research is important !
 Research defined as mission of library and librarian
 Research need a various of specialists such as
librarian
 Research librarian is a new position for librarian

8. The Role of Information in Research
 defining a set of research questions, issues or problems
 identifying relevant existing knowledge
 accessing, analyzing, and evaluating existing
knowledge and data
 designing a methodology for generating new
knowledge

9. The Role of Information in Research
(Cont.)
 applying the methodology and discovering new
knowledge
 combining old and new knowledge to answer research
questions and to enhance understanding
 disseminating the outcomes of research in a form that
is both sustainable and retrievable

10. Information in the Research Process
 gather
 evaluate
 create
 analyses
 Manage
 transform
 present and communicate

11. Librarians are information managers
 Librarian gather, evaluate, create, analyses, Manage,
transform , present and communicate information.

13. Research steps
Pre-Proposal Application Development
Award Acceptance and Project
Set-Up
Project Management and
Monitoring
Award Close-Out

14. Integrating Librarians Into Biomedical
Research
 Pre-Proposal
• Search strategy
• Familiarity with databases and directories
• Data mining for funding opportunities
• Competitive intelligence
• Management of streams of information in multiple
formats

15. Integrating Librarians Into Biomedical
Research(cont.)
 Application Development
• Bibliography and literature search for application
• literature search requirements
• Description of information and library resources
available to the project staff
• Information management systems planning
• Coordination of contributions
• Prevent Plagiarism

16. Integrating Librarians Into Biomedical
Research (Cont.)
 Award Acceptance and Project Set-Up
 Implementation of information management plan
 Portal development

17. Integrating Librarians Into Biomedical
Research (Cont.)
 Project Management and Monitoring
• Collaboration development
• Portal support
• Continued competitive intelligence
• Knowledge management
• Mediation
• Reporting support

18. Integrating Librarians Into Biomedical
Research (Cont.)
 Award Close-Out
• Final reporting
• Support for and compliance with funding agency
publication policies
• Record retention
• Disposition of working documents or spaces

19. The role of librarian in research (Sum
Up)
 Find research topic
 Information resources searching
 Collecting data
 Information quality assessment
 Information interpretation and analysis
 Doing Final report

20. Threats of Research librarian
 Lack of skill and incapability
 Lack of time
 Inaccessibility
 lack of skill and incapability in research
 use other channels to meet the needs of information
(Unplanned)
 low skills in communication

21. Threats of Research librarian (Cont.)
 Unresponsive
 Lack of familiarity with resources
 The researchers' low familiarity with information
services and library
 Researchers Unfamiliarity with the librarians
capability

22. What should we do?
 We should change threats to opportunities!

23. Being and becoming a research
librarian
To become research librarians, information professionals need to
acquire and continuously build on appropriate high levels the
following KASH characteristics
KNOWLEDGE,
ATTITUDE,
SKILLS and
HABITS
that will bring them closer to membership of the researcher team.

28. Good Luck

29. Competitive intelligence
 Competitive intelligence is the action of defining,
gathering, analyzing, and
distributing intelligence about products,
customers, competitors, and any aspect of the
environment needed to support executives and
managers making strategic decisions for an
organization.

30. information management plan
 information management plan that defines
recommendations, goals, outcomes, scope, cost
estimates, risks and assumptions, and program
governance required to achieve research objectives.

31. Portal development
 Portal development is when we have determined with
our customer a specific selection of information or
resources that you want our librarians to identify and
catalog together in one portal .
 The advantage of having resources cataloged together
is that the portal easily guides end-users to the most
critical information first.