Ithaka S+R partners with OSU Library researchers

March 10, 2016

OSU librarians, Sarah Milligan and Hui-Fen Chang, will serve as lead investigators on an upcoming study by Ithaka S+R, a not-for-profit service that helps the academic community navigate economic and technological change.

The study is an in-depth qualitative analysis of the research practices of academics in agriculture. The goal is to understand the resources and services these faculty need to be successful in their teaching and research.

Subjects will participate in a one-on-one semi-structured interview with an investigator listed in this protocol. The interviews will be 60 minutes and take place in the participants’ primary work spaces on campus. As part of the interview process photographs documenting the work space may also be taken. 

The results will help to articulate the research activities and needs including identifying improvements to pre-existing library services and opportunities for developing research support services for agriculture widely. The study also adds to the knowledge in library and information studies on user needs and activities by examining the specific needs of agriculture scholars, a group that has been previously under-represented in this literature.

This local study is connected to a suite of parallel studies being developed at other US-based higher education institutions with agriculture departments. The anonymized aggregated data and analysis will also be used in a comprehensive report by Ithaka S+R.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/archived-news/spring-2016/ithaka

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