Research support at VIA Library, Campus Aarhus C

1. Team for Research
Support at VIA Library
TASKS AND CHALLENGES

2. The University Colleges in Denmark first
received a Goverment grant to
Research from 2013-
Knowledge production at
the Universities
Knowledge reproduction
at the University Colleges
Transformation of
knowledge to business
and professions
•Professions•Business
•Research•Educations
Production and
transformation
of knowledge
Production and
transformation
of knowledge
Production and
transformation
of knowledge
Production and
transformation
of knowledge
Knowledge circuit

3. What consequences does this have
for VIA library?
 Support to the educations and the research
process
 Build-up of competences for the librarians
 Be more international
 Access to more research and subject databases-
1.3. mill dk more to buy access
 Set up a team for researcher support
 Negotions with the directors af the 4 research
departments- How the library can support the
research process
 Activities: Courses for the researcher:
 How to make a search strategy and which
databases to search in
 Where to publish to get impact
 Tools for reference handling
 Instructions for the researcher - 4 hours if they
need personal support
 Section at library web with information ressources
of intererest to the research process

4. Team for Research Support - challenges
Many challenges
 How and where to inform about the Library
support
 Difficult for the researchers to give priority to join
the courses
 Acknowledging that information searching is a
time-consuming process
 Small research grant - covering 60-80 hours pr
researcher - no time for library courses
 Only little experience of writing and publiching
research articles
 Make the researchers understand that they also
have to register their articles in our local repository
Internal challenges
 Librarians in Team for Research
Support are not working in the same
library- Skype meeting and it can be
difficult to share experiences
 Just one more task to do
 Time for Team for Research Support to
share their knowledge with their local
colleagues