Learning to Do Research the Hard Way

By Barbara Fister. One of the issues that came up as librarians on Twitter kicked around the pros and cons of tenure for academic librarians (a conversation started in a blog post by Meredith Farkas and followed up by Maura Smale, Anne-Marie Deitering, and Wayne Bivens-Tatum, among others) was that we lack research training. That may seem odd for people who so often provide undergraduates with . . .  well, a kind of research training, but our fairly short and generally practice-focused graduate programs don’t typically include much training in research methodology. Read more...