Librarians asresearchers

摘要

In the last 7 years I have done several talks and workshops about librarians as researchers. I will be honest,given my background (I have a PhD in history and information studies), the two professions have alwaysseemed well aligned to me. Some of my first jobs were on research projects, funded by Jisc, the British Libraryand various internal pots of money at different universities. I became a librarian in the late 1990s when therewas a lot of funding into developing digital libraries and online learning in higher education, so I feel very luckyto have gained so much research experience. However, I know for many librarians, they may believe they dolittle research in their day jobs, and if they did a dissertation as part of the library qualification, it may have beentheir only venture into the world of research.