Rabasa, Talatu Adamu and Abrizah, Abdullah (2022) Academic librarians' roles and competencies in research partnership: A qualitative study. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 27 (3). pp. 69-95. ISSN 1394-6234, DOI https://doi.org/10.22452/mjlis.vol27no3.4.
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In the past decades, academic librarianship has been preoccupied with changes that include academic librarians as research partners due to the changing landscape in scholarly communication services, evolving technologies, and institutional missions. Thus, the idea of academic librarians being a partner in research rather than mere research supporters is a new development in academic librarianship that requires attention, especially on what academic librarians can do to partner with the research community successfully. Therefore, this study employed a qualitative approach to explore academic librarians' roles as research partners and the competencies required for better collaborations. Data were generated through face-to-face interviews with 14 academic librarians purposively sampled from a major research university in Nigeria. Ten themes emerged from the findings regarding academic librarians' role as research partners. These include information discovery and provision, information use and evaluation; grants
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Academic librarians; Roles; Competencies; Research partnership; Embedded librarianship; Scholarly communication |
| Subjects: | Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Libraries (General) Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Information resources (General) > Information services. Information centers |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Department of Library and Information Sience |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2024 08:46 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 08:46 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/40482 |
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