ARL Publishes New Roles for New Times: Research Library Services for Graduate Students

« The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) today released Research Library Services for Graduate Students (PDF), the second report in the New Roles for New Times series.[…] The report proposes that the growing number, and heterogeneity, of graduate students and programs presents opportunities for research libraries to provide segmented services targeted for students at different stages of their academic and demographic life-cycle. Through their interviews, Covert-Vail and Collard found an enthusiasm for a broad range of new services, from advanced data manipulation and visualization to softer skills-based instruction in time management and writer’s block. They also report that new configurations of library space, housing aggregated services into research or scholarly commons, for example, can both create and leverage collaborations within the larger institution (…) »

source > arl.org, décembre 2012