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The new Research Support Services Team will focus on supporting the research and teaching needs of faculty, students, and researchers in the academic colleges, departments, and research units of the University. Continuing work, areas of increased emphasis, and new work includes:
Connection Development Program:
- Wiki Page
- Tuesday Talks @ the Libraries Speaker Series
- Newsletter Archive
- Communication Request Form (Library login info is necessary to access this form)
The Research Support Services Team will be the Libraries’ designated liaison to the faculty, students, and researchers in the academic colleges, departments and research units of the University. Work includes:
- Strong and consistent liaison roles with customer and stakeholder groups
- Collaboration at local, regional and national level
- Donor relations work
- Serving as point person for faculty, students and researchers in colleges, departments, and research units as well as other campus collections such as the Poetry Center and the State Museum
- Communicating with faculty, students and researchers about library services/resources/issues
- Attending department meetings, serving on department committees as appropriate, coordinating library programs with departmental and college events, providing library orientation for new faculty and graduate students, working with departments on their academic program reviews and accreditation reviews
Content Management Domain (CMCG) :
- Evaluating, assessing, providing access to and preserving digital content (created, purchased, or donated)
- Digital projects
- Institutional repository
- Project management
- Working with TST on developing metadata for digital projects
- Serving as liaisons to UA faculty, students and researchers in colleges, departments, and research units
- Selecting and organizing content for digital environment exhibits
- Serving as a resource for digital exhibits
- Staying current with discipline-related issues/trends
- Identifying needs and exploring options for grant funding
- Understanding and providing guidance on intellectual property and scholarly communication issues
Education Strategy & Resource Program:
- Support of teaching and services in an electronic environment (e.g. course management systems, creation of textbooks)
- Instructional design for class instruction, learning objects, and incorporation into the electronic environment
- Learning object development and updating
- Assessment of learning outcomes
- Designing and delivering of subject-specific information literacy initiatives for colleges, departments, research units.
- Working in collaboration with members of the Undergraduate Services Team, as appropriate, designing and delivering information literacy initiatives for the University of Arizona’s general education and foundations courses
- Developing learning objects in collaboration with faculty and the instructional design group
- Working with department and campus curriculum committees
- Developing and assessing learning outcomes
- Developing instructional materials, developing lesson plans and research guides, gathering materials for instruction, collecting data for ARL statistics
Information Resources Management Program:
- Working with vendors to create products we need
- Evaluating of electronic products
- Evaluating and assessing existing collections and new collections including monitoring and reporting areas of growth, areas of decline
- Collection Management currently performed by UST (collection management for the A & Z call numbers)
- Evaluating electronic resources
- Setting-up and reviewing approval plans/profiles
- Evaluating collection and use data
- Ordering requests for resources from faculty and students
- Managing/monitoring Information Access Budget
- Coordinating budget reductions/serials cancellations
- Coordinating deselection
- Monitoring changes in departments and colleges for new resources needs
- Working with vendors, including setting up and evaluating database trials
- Contributing to collection development policies and guidelines
- Managing endowment accounts
Research and Reference Assistance:
- Providing subject-specific in-depth research assistance for faculty, students, researchers
- Providing subject-specific training for reference desk staff