At the turn of the century there were many that believed that academic libraries were dying and were seeking new roles and responsibilities to get off 'life support'. Since then changes in higher education pedagogy, digitisation of scholarly content, and increases in the influence of technologies have transformed academic library services.

Academic libraries are now moving away from reactive research support and towards a proactive role as a contributor to research and the research production process. This transformation is demanding a 'deeper meaning' of research support for the researcher. In support of that 'deeper meaning' libraries are providing a new and expanded set of services which includes, inter alia​, research data management, curation and preservation; facilitation of open access and bibliometric analysis.

The use of research performance management tools to scan the research landscape, strengthening of self-retrieval of scholarly literature, assistance in the dissemination of research results via publication, and assistance in determining impact factor, are all part of this suite of services offered by a newly transformed research support service of the academic library.

Venue:  The Range Function and Conference Centre, Tokai

Please note that this event takes place over two days: Thursday 13 August 2015 & Friday 14 August 2015. You are only required to register once.