Academic Library Services to Graduate Students Interest Group

Hi Melissa,

We have started something at UVic we call the "Graduate Writers' Skill-building Group" and we have a guide here: Graduate Writers' Skill-building Group

Its not exactly what you are asking for, but we have broken things down into three areas: writing help, counseling, and library help, which includes some of the things you mention. 

Great conversation starter - I hope to see more!

-Michael Lines

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Michael Lines
Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian
University of Victoria
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Thanks for sharing, Michael.

Our Writing Center hosts  writing groups, so we plan to link to that. A few people have shared resources off the thread, as well.  Here are a few I've received:

From Harvard: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/62558 - I hadn't thought about making something this interactive, but maybe in Phase 2 or 3!

From Simon Fraser University: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/scholarly-publishing/radical-access/getting-started-research

This is the Rutgers one I referred to in my initial post: https://libguides.rutgers.edu/BootCamps. And Bonnie Fong wrote an article about it.

I have stumbled across a few others:

https://dal.ca.libguides.com/ResearchCamp/modules

https://libguides.auburn.edu/savvy_researcher/workshops

And I found this article from Cornell, but I don't know if this bootcamp still happens, I couldn't easily find it on their site: https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/17808/19633

My guide is still private - I'm probably a few months away from publishing this - and there is still a lot of work to do with content, context, organization, etc. but the menu can give you a sense of where I'm trying to go. I've only just shared it with colleagues in Digital Scholarship Services, who are slowly adding content, and the Graduate Student Association will provide UX/content feedback before this gets any publicity. For example, in a quick meeting with the grad students, they asked for info on Collaborative Project Management tools and they told me despite discipline, they'd probably be looking for info on data tools by qualitative or quantitative. Our DH librarian said Humanities students might ignore the data section so we be explicit when labeling tools useful for them.  So lots of work to do still!

Please continue to share links to guides like this if you have one! 

Melissa

Hi Melissa,

I just created something similar this summer. It's meant to be an introduction to our library for graduate students, but does include some of the writing/research/publishing  ideas you mentioned. Here is the link for it: https://lib.guides.umbc.edu/gradstudents. Some of the guides I took inspiration from include:

•  Grad Students Library Guide and Schol Comm guides from SUNY Albany
•  Library Resources for Graduate & PhD Students from Southern University A&M
• Graduate Students Guide from Arizona State University
• Publishing Your Research & Extending Your Impact from USC
• Graduate Students Guide to the Library from U of Wyoming

Maybe you'll find some of these useful!