Creating research infrastructures in the 21st-century academic library : conceiving, funding, and building new facilities and staff / [edited by] Bradford Lee Eden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Creating the library's future : the new R&D / James Brewer, Jayne Sappington, Robert Sweet --
2. Re-engineering relationships with faculty and students : a social contract for digital scholarship / Mark J. Caprio --
3. Data curation for small databases : research data management solutions for dinky databases / Laurie N. Taylor, Mark V. Sullivan, Valrie Davis --
4. The data-driven academic librarian / Steven Ovadia --
5. Redefining scholarly services in a research lifecycle / Sai Deng, Lee Dotson --
6. The library as publishing house / James Day, Anne Marie Casey, Chip Wolfe --
7. Web archiving : preserving the future of history / Trevor Alvord --
8. How to write a grant (and get funded) / Kyle Breneman --
9. Courage to contribute : an overview of the motivators, skills, and resources for grant-seeking / Sylvia Hall-Ellis --
10. Revolutionary or evolutionary? : making research data management manageable / Kristin Partlo, Diana Symons, Jonathan Carlson --
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About the editor and contributors.

Creating 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 and 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. Support for such services is provided in a chapter that considers how assessment and data now drive decisions and new services in higher education and more specifically in academic libraries and how statistical data can help to tell stories, make decisions, and move in new directions. Conceptualization of the research process is also examined through the presentation of a research lifecycle in the university environment with the library as in integral partner and leader. The library as publisher, an increasingly important topic, with new institutional repositories tied to journal creation, curation, and management, is examined with a discussion of the workflow and expertise necessary for the library to be successful and responsive to the research needs of its institution and become a leader in providing publishing services to its faculty.