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Title Riding the “cycle”; Librarians facilitating researchAuthor(s) Sidorko, PECitationThe 2015 IFLA World Library and Information Congress & 81stIFLA General Conference and Assembly (IFLA WLIC 2015), CapeTown, South Africa, 15-21 August 2015.Issued Date 2015URL http://hdl.handle.net/10722/227700Rights This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.Riding the “cycle”: Librarians facilitating research Peter Sidorko University Librarian The University of Hong Kong IFLA WLIC 2015 Academic and Research Libraries Standing Committee  Hot Topics – Research Support The University of Hong Kong Faculty Survey: Report of Findings. Ithaka S+R, April 2015. “A good and resourceful library is the key to a University that excels in research.” (HKU Faculty Member) The University of Hong Kong (HKU) 67% very dependent to completely dependent Jisc Research Lifecycle  https://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/res3/jischelp.aspx  Research Pattern (non-cyclic) Adapted from: Arnold Hirshon, Understanding and Managing the Environment, The 13th University of Hong Kong Annual Library Leadership Institute Leading the Next Generation Research Library Xiamen, 24-28 April 2015. The Research Cycle 1.  Idea 2.  Develop and Design 3.  Obtain funds 4.  Undertake research 5.  Disseminate 6.  Archive/ preserve/ share “It is still unclear to me how the library can help me with their services” “HKU's library services are crucial to the functioning of HKU as they are any University” Questions to ponder • Thinking about the research cycle model provided, where and how can librarians actively assist researchers?  • What challenges do librarians face in delivering support at each stage of that model?  • Thinking about some of the less recognised research inputs and outputs, e.g. data (scientific, statistical, ethnographic, texts) and the various formats of that data (text, numbers, image, audio, video, models, analytic code, others) are librarians well positioned to organize, preserve and share these?  What restraints do they face?  

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