Developing a research culture and scholarship plan in information studies

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Developing a research culture and scholarship
plan in information studies

• Michael Middleton, Christine Bruce, Helen
  Partridge, Sylvia Edwards
• Email correspondence m.middleton_at_qut.edu.au

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Higher education context

• Library school absorption
• Restructuring
• Tiered system (teaching research)
• Research funding
• Internal and external sources
• The profession
• Defining the paradigm ALIA (others?)
• Research-teaching nexus

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Academic tribes and classification

• Disciplinary claims in academia
• Multidisciplinarity of information studies
• Finding a place to fit
• Collaborative opportunities

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Faculty Research Structure

• Faculty formation
• Faculty research development and concentrations
• Research centre formation
• Devolution to Schools
• Socio-technical systems

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Areas of research and teaching

• Librarianship
• Information management
• Knowledge management

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Research culture

• ISMRC
• Information use analysis
• Information literacy
• QUILT group

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Research processes

• Emerging scholarship
• Doctoral program
• Research through Masters programs
• Interdisciplinarity
• Grants

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Research application

• Information education
• Information literacy
• Information management
• Information policy
• Derived from all areas
• Information seeking
• Search behaviour
• Information use
• Communities of use

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Example of the interrelated research outcomes
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Bruces Seven faces of Information
Literacy Bruces RACER Model for the Successful
Implementation of Information Literacy Programs
Bruce, Edwards Luptons Six Frames for
Information Literacy Education
Edwards Bruces Reflective Internet
searching Edwards Experience of Internet
Searching
Hughes Influences on the use of Online
Information Resources Tilleys Six Types of
E-Communities
Partridge Hallams The makeup of the
contemporary library and information professional
Nelsons Information and Knowledge Management
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Seven Faces of IL
WISDOM
INSIGHT
KNOWLEDGE BASE
PROCESS
CONTROL
SOURCES
INFORMATION AWARENESS
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6 Types of E-communities A Model of Virtual
Community for Persons with Disabilities Christine
Tilley, PhD in progress
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Reflective Model for Learning to Search the
Internet
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Influences on the use of online information
resources Hilary Hughes, QUT, June 2005
USING ONLINE INFORMATION RESOURCES
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Experience of Internet searching
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Multidimensional framework for organisational IKM
(Nelson, PhD, 2004)
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DNA model of library information professional
Partridge Hallam, 2004
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RACER model for successful implementation of IL
programs Bruce, 2005

• Recognise different perspectives and roles
• Accept diversity
• Change with support
• Evaluate the process and outcomes
• Research the future

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Six Frames for IL Education(Bruce, Edwards,
Lupton, in press)
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and so to ?

• Consolidation of program
• Higher profile for research and application
• Pursuing links with profession industry
• Competitive grants
• Consultancy