NISO Webinar: Discovery: Where Researchers Start

If the discovery resources available via the library don’t necessarily serve as the faculty’s starting line for launching cutting-edge research, then what’s the next step? Published in early 2017, ITHAKA’s US Library Survey of roughly 1,500 institutional libraries indicated a diminishing expectation that the institutional library will be the starting point for researchers. What does that suggest for content providers and for library professionals? How does a library know that faculty are using something else? How can libraries draw upon that knowledge of researcher preferences to improve their own services?

Confirmed Speakers: Joelen Pastva, Head, Collection Management and Metadata Services, Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University; Karin A. Wulf, Professor, History and Director of the Omohundro Institute. College of William and Mary;