Providing Library Instruction to Graduate Students: A Review of the Literature

Blummer, Barbara

doi:10.1080/15228950802507525

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“…2 The results concluded that much of the programming directed to this user population focused less on the acquisition of research skills and more on teaching about the organization of information. George and Bright, et al,…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 97%

Incoming Graduate Students in the Social Sciences: How Much Do They Really Know About Library Research?

Monroe‐Gulick¹,

Petr²

2012

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Incoming Graduate Students in the Social Sciences: How Much Do They Really Know About Library Research?

Monroe‐Gulick¹,

Petr²

2012

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“…In a literature review on graduate students and library instruction, Barbara Blummer notes that there have been a large variety of instructional efforts aimed at graduate students including faculty-librarian partnerships, seminars and workshops, and for-credit courses. 10 Library instruction for graduate students has been shown to increase both skill level and confidence, regardless of the mode of delivery. 11 Workshops specifically targeting the unique needs of graduate students increase proficiency and help students feel more effective and efficient in their information seeking.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding Support for Graduate Students: Library Workshops on Research Funding Opportunities

Forbes

Schlesselman-Tarango

Keeran

2017

C&RL

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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...

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“…There has, however, been quite a bit of reported success with certain subgroups within the research community. For example, information literacy instruction for graduate students in particular has been relatively well documented in the literature; they may be targeted for instruction in their courses, by stage of their program (literature review or thesis-writing stage), or by other factors-distance education students, returning students, etc.-many examples of which are summarized by Blummer (2009). Many studies highlight the need to address specialized resources and types of information inherent to different disciplines (Hoffmann et al 2008;Kuruppu and Gruber 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many members of the university community are engaged in research, and therefore there are many ways to group them in order to target services meaningfully to a manageable-size subgroup. For example, studies or initiatives may focus on graduate students (Blummer 2009;George et al 2006;O'Clair 2013;Hoffmann et al 2008), postdoctoral scholars (Barr-Walker 2013), or researchers/faculty members (Brown and Tucker 2013;Thompson 2009;Haines et al 2010). These groupings can be further subdivided as well: Graduate students may be targeted for library instruction in specific courses (O'Clair 2013), or at a specific point 166 E. MacKenzie in their program, such as the literature review stage (Rempel and Davidson 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Academic Libraries and Outreach to the Sciences: Taking a Closer Look at Research Groups

MacKenzie

2014

Science & Technology Libraries

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Finding ways to provide support for researchers is of growing concern in academic libraries. In the sciences, research often takes place in a group context, though few studies report specifically on library services targeted to these groups as a whole. Understanding the characteristics and dynamics of research groups can help inform librarians' outreach and service efforts. The purpose of this article is to discuss those strategies that have been successful when approaching research groups, as well as identifying initiatives that may be amenable to adaptation for this purpose.

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Providing Library Instruction to Graduate Students: A Review of the Literature

Cited by 35 publications

References 35 publications

Incoming Graduate Students in the Social Sciences: How Much Do They Really Know About Library Research?

Incoming Graduate Students in the Social Sciences: How Much Do They Really Know About Library Research?

Expanding Support for Graduate Students: Library Workshops on Research Funding Opportunities

Academic Libraries and Outreach to the Sciences: Taking a Closer Look at Research Groups

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