Research Collections and Support
Libraries are increasingly leveraging the raw materials of scholarship and knowledge formation by emphasizing the creation and curation of institutional research assets and outputs, including digitized special collections, research data, and researcher profiles. Our work informs current thinking about research collections and the emerging services that libraries are offering to support contemporary modes of scholarship. We are encouraging the development of new ways for libraries to build and provide these types of collections and deliver distinctive services. Our efforts are focused in the following three areas:
Presentations

“A little bit of communication can go a long way.” The importance of Library Community Involvement and Relationship Building
Te Puna Libraries, New Zealand
Topics: Student Support
![“It [library tour] wasn't what do you do when you need to make a literature review…” Proactively Positioning the Library in the Life of the User](/content/dam/research/presentations/2019/082619-connaway-library-life-user-ifla19.pptx.thumb.1280.1280.png)
“It [library tour] wasn't what do you do when you need to make a literature review…” Proactively Positioning the Library in the Life of the User
Athens, Greece
Topics: Information Literacy, Student Support

Re(Casting) Call: Sculpting Services & Strategies for Cultivating Online Scholarly Identity
Cleveland, OH (USA)
Topics: Scholarly Identity

Trending Now: Recasting Services to Support Scholarly Identity Work
Cleveland, OH (USA)
Topics: Scholarly Identity

Factors Influencing Research Data Management
Teramo (Italy)
Topics: Research Data Management

New Data, Same Skills: Applying Core Principles to New Needs in Data Curation
Warsaw (Poland)
Topics: Research Data Management