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Librarians as Researchers
Developing our Scholarly Identities
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About this book
This book is designed to empower librarians to develop their research skills and embrace their identities as scholars.
Many librarians, particularly those in academic libraries, are expected to engage in research and scholarly output. However, unlike disciplinary faculty, most librarians have not completed a PhD program, and many have never designed or participated in original research upon embarking on their career. This edited volume provides inspiration and support for academic librarians looking to develop or refresh their research skills and develop their scholarly identities. The focus of this book is toward empowering librarians as researchers, rather than librarians supporting student or faculty research. This book provides a venue for librarians to share their knowledge on different aspects of research as well as build community for other librarians to actualize their own identities as researchers.
The existing literature and research in the realm of librarian identity development often touches on librarian identities in the face of emerging technologies and new library types, or how librarians can support research at their institutions. However, there is a gap in the literature around librarians developing their own identities as researchers. Librarians have a unique role in the scholarly community; we often sacrifice our own research interests so that we can provide support and instruction to others, whether it be faculty, students, or the public. But the library world holds immense opportunity for developing and executing original research. Additionally, conducting research is beneficial to librarians' individual practice as well as the library community as a whole. This edited volume will provide guidance as well as actionable methods for librarians to develop foundational research philosophies, create communities of practice, and hone practical skills in a wide range of research areas.
Many librarians, particularly those in academic libraries, are expected to engage in research and scholarly output. However, unlike disciplinary faculty, most librarians have not completed a PhD program, and many have never designed or participated in original research upon embarking on their career. This edited volume provides inspiration and support for academic librarians looking to develop or refresh their research skills and develop their scholarly identities. The focus of this book is toward empowering librarians as researchers, rather than librarians supporting student or faculty research. This book provides a venue for librarians to share their knowledge on different aspects of research as well as build community for other librarians to actualize their own identities as researchers.
The existing literature and research in the realm of librarian identity development often touches on librarian identities in the face of emerging technologies and new library types, or how librarians can support research at their institutions. However, there is a gap in the literature around librarians developing their own identities as researchers. Librarians have a unique role in the scholarly community; we often sacrifice our own research interests so that we can provide support and instruction to others, whether it be faculty, students, or the public. But the library world holds immense opportunity for developing and executing original research. Additionally, conducting research is beneficial to librarians' individual practice as well as the library community as a whole. This edited volume will provide guidance as well as actionable methods for librarians to develop foundational research philosophies, create communities of practice, and hone practical skills in a wide range of research areas.
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Table of contents
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editors’ Introduction
- Part I: Starting from Scratch—“Wait, Research Is Expected?”
- Chapter 1: Let the Garden Run Wild: Organizational Structures and Organic Growth of Research Identities
- Chapter 2: Where Do I Begin?: Developing a Research Identity as a Librarian
- Chapter 3: LIS Scholarship: Roadmap to Researcher Identity Development
- Chapter 4: Developing a Research Agenda: Connecting Practice with Research
- Chapter 5: Weaving Together Your Identity as a Librarian Researcher and Establishing or Discovering Common Threads: Friendly Advice from One Librarian to Another
- Chapter 6: Leveraging Librarian Skills to Develop Research Identities
- Part II: Creating a Culture of Research
- Chapter 7: Emotional Labor and Research Identity Development: The Early-Career Academic Librarian Experience
- Chapter 8: Squad Goals: Best Practices for Research Writing Communities
- Chapter 9: Implementing a SoTL Framework: Librarians in a Community of Practice
- Chapter 10: Manuscript by May: Fostering a Scholarly Writing Community of Practice
- Chapter 11: Building Support Structures for Non-Tenure-Track Librarian-Researchers: A Case Study at Seattle University
- Chapter 12: LibParlor Online Learning: Developing Librarian-Researcher Identities through a Free Online Curriculum
- Part III: The “How To” of Librarian Research
- Chapter 13: Navigating Cross-institutional Research
- Chapter 14: Designing Research Studies that Sail through the IRB Process
- Chapter 15: Publish or Perish and Playing Nice: And Other Things Library School Did Not Teach Us about the Publication Process
- Chapter 16: Identifying Your Epistemic Point of View and Designing Research
- Chapter 17: Positionality as a Pathway to Understanding Self and Practicing Culturally Responsive Librarianship, Leadership, a d Scholarship
- Index
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors