This case study describes the development, implementation, and assessment of a series of grants research workshops for graduate students, which were implemented to fill a gap in graduate student support. We assessed the workshops through a series of focus groups, and findings show overall satisfaction with the grants tools and workshop. However, participants noted areas of improvement around outreach and promotion and general communication with graduate students. Additional themes emerged related to graduate student socialization and research behaviors , which suggests that librarians have an important role to serve in these areas. The current environment of research in higher education is characterized by emerging technologies and an exponential rise in information, a focus on interdisciplinary research, expanding faculty workloads, and greater calls for accountability. 1 Regardless of the institutional type, the modern college or university is also increasingly reliant on funding from external constituencies to support faculty research. 2 Within this new research paradigm, the implications for graduate students, as future faculty members and professionals, are extensive. In addition to the traditional expectations for teaching, research, and service, they need to understand the broader expectations for scholarship and develop expertise in the different forms of scholarly work. They must be able to collaborate with colleagues in other disciplines and with individuals and organizations outside the academic environment while at the same time raising funds for their own research. 3 The University of Denver (DU) is a private, coeducational research university with a graduate student population of approximately 6,261, 4 with a total of 11,780 students. 5 The Office of Graduate Studies oversees admissions, theses and dissertation processing, career services, and budgets, with a focus on student academic success. The Graduate Student Governance fosters a sense of community and advocates for graduate students, arranging meetings to discuss issues, workshops on topics of interest, and an annual summit for presenting research to the academic community. Yet, DU has a decentralized structure, which means that individual schools and colleges offer services and support for their own students that are not necessarily available to all graduate students. Because of the institution's decentralized organization, some graduate students are missing research and professional skills that would help them prosper in academia and in their future careers. The librarians, recognizing this inconsistency as a challenge for a large part of our community, identified gaps in the graduate student experience at DU and created instructional programming to provide graduate students with opportunities to develop foundational research skills. In this paper, we describe the development, implementation, and assessment of a series of grants research workshops, a relatively new venture for us because, in the past, we had not considered that librarians h...

In 1864, the same year the University of Denver was founded by John Evans, then the Territorial Governor of Colorado and the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, a group of U.S. militia attacked and killed vulnerable members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho nations at Sand Creek. Using Critical Race Theory and the feminist "ethic of care," we critique our collections in terms of the Massacre and absent Native American voices, in order to develop a collecting philosophy and direction to acknowledge and address the gaps, and to formulate strategies for teaching students to interrogate a predominately white institutional archive to give voice to the absent or silenced.

This case study describes the development, implementation, and assessment of a series of grants research workshops for graduate students, which were implemented to fill a gap in graduate student support. We assessed the workshops through a series of focus groups, and findings show overall satisfaction with the grants tools and workshop. However, participants noted areas of improvement around outreach and promotion and general communication with graduate students. Additional themes emerged related to graduate student socialization and research behaviors, which suggests that librarians have an important role to serve in these areas.The current environment of research in higher education is characterized by emerging technologies and an exponential rise in information, a focus on interdisciplinary research, expanding faculty workloads, and greater calls for accountability.1 Regardless of the institutional type, the modern college or university is also increasingly reliant on funding from external constituencies to support faculty research.2 Within this new research paradigm, the implications for graduate students, as future faculty members and professionals, are extensive. In addition to the traditional expectations for teaching, research, and service, they need to understand the broader expectations for scholarship and develop expertise in the different forms of scholarly work. They must be able to collaborate with colleagues in other disciplines and with individuals and organizations outside the academic environment while at the same time raising funds for their own research. The University of Denver (DU) is a private, coeducational research university with a graduate student population of approximately 6,261, 4 with a total of 11,780 students. 5The Office of Graduate Studies oversees admissions, theses and dissertation processing, career services, and budgets, with a focus on student academic success. The Graduate Student Governance fosters a sense of community and advocates for graduate students, arranging meetings to discuss issues, workshops on topics of interest, and an annual summit for presenting research to the academic community. Yet, DU has a decentralized structure, which means that individual schools and colleges offer services and support for their own students that are not necessarily available to all graduate students. Because of the institution's decentralized organization, some graduate students are missing research and professional skills that would help them prosper in academia and in their future careers. The librarians, recognizing this inconsistency as a challenge for a large part of our community, identified gaps in the graduate student experience at DU and created instructional programming to provide graduate students with opportunities to develop foundational research skills.In this paper, we describe the development, implementation, and assessment of a series of grants research workshops, a relatively new venture for us because, in the past, we had not considered that librarians had a rol...

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