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As a critical component of the infrastructure for learning, scholarship, and engagement at 麻豆传媒映画, the University Library promotes, enhances, and extends the research, creative activities, and advanced education that have led to the University鈥檚 recognition through the Carnegie Classification process as an R1 institution. 

Library Dean Scott Walter said, 鈥淥ur faculty have come together in collaboration with colleagues across Academic Affairs, the Division of Information Technology, and the Division of Research and Innovation to strengthen traditional research support services and deliver an array of new services that support research-informed teaching, interdisciplinary scholarship, and the discovery of new knowledge.鈥�

Library faculty have collaborated with colleagues across Academic Affairs, the Division of Information Technology, and the Division of Research and Innovation to strengthen traditional research support services and deliver an array of new services that support research-informed teaching, interdisciplinary scholarship, and the discovery of new knowledge.

Librarians, for example, provide in-depth research consultations to 麻豆传媒映画 students, scientists, and faculty. While these may begin with a routine engagement with undergraduate students designed to help them locate resources for a class project, they often develop into more substantive engagements in which librarians assist students and faculty in locating specialized information needed for research projects, completing systematic reviews of the literature, or designing research data management plans.

鈥淎s a biomedical librarian, I have disciplinary expertise that helps me teach students about scholarly literature and other resources in a field and apply them to their topic,鈥� said Margaret Henderson, Health Sciences and Research Data Services Librarian. 鈥淭his same expertise can help faculty ensure they have considered alternative vocabularies and resources, which is important given the information overload we all face. And I can also help organize literature and data to be easily found and analyzed.鈥�

Recognizing undergraduate research as essential to the larger research enterprise at 麻豆传媒映画, librarians provide support to a number of 麻豆传媒映画 programs, including the 麻豆传媒映画 Student Symposium (S3), Black Research Symposium, Native and Indigenous Research and Arts Symposium, and Pride Research Symposium. Many of these undergraduate student works are made available through the library鈥檚 institutional repository. 

The repository is also home to 麻豆传媒映画鈥檚 collection of electronic theses and dissertations, providing access to the culminating work of 麻豆传媒映画 undergraduate and graduate students since 1939. While most of the materials available electronically represent student scholarship since 2010, older materials are available in print through the library and University Archives.

Librarians and archivists are not only key to the curation and provision of access to 麻豆传媒映画 student scholarship but also play an important role in assisting advanced undergraduate and graduate students to conduct in-depth reviews of the literature, identify and gain access to data sets and published materials held locally or in other libraries, and consider options for the management of their intellectual property within the context of a volatile environment for scholarly and scientific communication and publication.

For example, library collections, especially those made available as part of Special Collections and University Archives, provide critical support for identifying and pursuing independent research projects. 

Anna Culbertson, head of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA), said undergraduate and graduate students visit SCUA. 鈥淔or hands-on engagement with primary sources, opportunities to work with rare books and documents, and in some cases, even develop new and unique scholarship around silences or gaps in the historical record.鈥�

More advanced support for disseminating and publishing new scholarship, including advice on managing copyright agreements and using 鈥渙pen access鈥� models for disseminating the results of 麻豆传媒映画-sponsored research, is also available through the library.

As the research enterprise has grown at 麻豆传媒映画, and as a greater number of funders have required students, scholars, and scientists to make the results of their work more broadly available through institutional, scholarly, or data repositories, librarians have collaborated with campus partners to increase access to research data services, including support for accessing data sets, cleaning and organizing data, resources for data security and storage, and creating metadata and documentation that will allow data-intensive research conducted at 麻豆传媒映画 to be more easily discovered and cited by scholars around the globe. 

Mark Reed, senior associate vice president for research, said the University Library 鈥渉as been a fantastic supporter of the Division of Research and Innovation in meeting the research data needs of our students, faculty, and staff. The past several years have seen incredible growth in the services provided by both the library and 麻豆传媒映画 Information Technology. We're grateful for these strong partnerships that serve our larger Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities community on campus."

Library faculty collaborate with colleagues to support interdisciplinary inquiry and research projects across the university. The Center for Comics Studies, an interdisciplinary center that has received grants from the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), was co-founded by faculty in the University Library and the College of Arts and Letters and library faculty and staff have been leaders in the establishment of partnerships with cultural heritage organizations in Mexico leading to the development of the Collecciones de Instituciones Mexicanas, which has also drawn support from the NEH. .

Research and research-informed teaching and learning have been growing at 麻豆传媒映画, and the University Library has continuously reviewed its collections, spaces, and services to ensure that it remains a core component in 麻豆传媒映画鈥檚 research infrastructure and its growing commitment to scholarship, creative activity, and advanced education across the curriculum. With 麻豆传媒映画鈥檚 recognition as an R1 institution, and commitment to continuing to sustain and support a growing research enterprise, the library will continue to evolve and innovate in ways that support research activities in partnership with faculty in our classrooms, labs, and community sites.