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Book SynopsisCreating Research Infrastructures in the 21st-Century Academic Library: Conceiving, Funding, and Building New Facilities and Staff focuses on research infrastructures, bringing together such topics as research and development in libraries, dataset management, e-science, grants and grant writing, digital scholarship, data management, library as publisher, web archiving, and the research lifecycle. Individual chapters deal with the formation of Research & Development teams; emerging scholarly forms and new collaborative approaches to knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation; managing small databases requiring the same level of support as large databases: metadata, digital preservation and curation, and technical support. Motivation for such services is provided in a chapter that considers how assessment and data now drive decisions and new services in higher education in general and academic libraries in particular and how statistical data can help to tell stories, make decisi
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Creating the library's future: the New R&D James Brewer, Jayne Sappington, Robert Sweet Chapter 2: Re-engineering relationships with faculty and students: a social contract for digital scholarship Mark J. Caprio Chapter 3: Data curation for small databases: research data management solutions for dinky databases Laurie N. Taylor, Mark V. Sullivan, Valrie Davis Chapter 4: The data-driven academic librarian Steven Ovadia Chapter 5: Redefining scholarly services in a research lifecycle Sai Deng, Lee Dotson Chapter 6: The library as publishing house James Day, Anne Marie Casey, Chip Wolfe Chapter 7: Web archiving: preserving the future of history Trevor Alvord Chapter 8: How to write a grant (and get funded) Kyle Breneman Chapter 9: Courage to contribute: an overview of the motivators, skills, and resources for grant-seeking Sylvia Hall-Ellis Chapter 10: Revolutionary or evolutionary? Making research data management manageable Kristin Partlo, Diana Symons, Jonathan Carlson Index About the Contributors About the Editor
