What is the Future of Libraries in Academic Research ...

• Main Authors: Hickerson, H. Thomas, Brosz, John, Goopy, Suzanne E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Libraries and Cultural Resources 2018
• Subjects: Academic Research and University Libraries Creating a New Model for Collaboration; Multidisciplinary Research Infrastructure The Role of 21st Century Libraries; research platform; academic libraries; multidisciplinary research; research; research administration; Empathic Cultural Mapping; knowledge translation and exchange; Urban Healthscapes Empathic Cultural Mapping; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/37561; https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/111624

Project Briefing at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall Meeting 2018. Video of presentation is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_8_FRhQdk&feature=youtu.be. ... : Research has changed, have libraries? Research at the University of Calgary has identified a constellation of services necessary to enable today's multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research. This session will address the nature of evolving challenges and explore steps critical to the future of research libraries. With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Libraries and Cultural Resources is seeking to instantiate a combination of services, expertise, and infrastructure through direct partnerships between library staff and scholars in a diversity of research endeavors. This research, enabled by competitive sub-grants, has ranged from providing real-time public access to arctic sensors to digitization and textual analysis of early science fiction writings to a repository for 3D scans of cultural heritage sites. This process will be examined from the perspective of the Project Coordinator, John Brosz, detailing the nature and results of direct participation by library staff in the various research ...