 So yeah, I'm going to talk today about a small research project I did on research support priorities and opportunities for collaboration, looking at the literature of LIS, the Library and Information Studies profession, and research admin, which I'll refer to as RA throughout. First of all, I thought I'd give you a little bit of context on where I'm coming from. The picture on the left is how I like to think of my university looking. The picture on the right is in the interest of full disclosure, more realistic depiction of how it looks right now. So we're a comprehensive university in the Canadian prairies. We have 10 faculties, some of them are divided into departments, so about 25 departments. We have a lot of interdisciplinary programs and research institutes that reach across traditional disciplines. We have about 15,000 students of which, about 2,000 are graduate students. Most of those are masters, although an increasing number of PhD students as well. This is a picture on the right of the main floor of the library where I work, the main library on our campus. And on the left is some of the offices of the research admin staff. So how I got interested in this, I worked at the University of Regina for a number of years now. Last year I started in a new position, research and scholarship librarian. And one of my first tasks identified for me to some extent, but I could see the necessity of it was to reach out to the research office on campus and start to build some bridges between the library and the research office. Being a good librarian, I turned to the literature to see what I could glean. So it will come as no surprise to anyone that there's lots of literature out there about library support for faculty teaching and for student learning, hundreds, if not thousands of papers about information literacy, and a lot of literature about the importance of collaborating with other units on campus, student groups, faculty in terms of helping students to achieve their learning goals. There's been less evidence collected, however, about how academic libraries can best support campus research. There has certainly been some reports, including RLUK's reskilling for research and ARL's new roles for new times that suggest a range of research support services that libraries could and perhaps should be providing. But when I look at the literature overall, there's been relatively little research conducted by librarians that includes the voices of others on campus who are involved in research support. Those outside the profession who have sort of similar goals in terms of advancing their research enterprise and supporting researchers. There's been some, although certainly not an abundance of studies about faculty members and their perceptions of library support for their research. There's little documentation of efforts to reach out to others involved in facilitating campus research. So my study aimed to listen to some of the voices outside of LIS, but those who are very interested in the academic research enterprise to see what we can learn about their perspectives on campus research supports and the role of academic libraries in meeting those needs. So when I used the term research administrator, it's somewhat nebulous, but in the context of this study it's used to describe staff working in campus research offices that play a role in facilitating academic research. So specific job titles would include research office directors, research funding officers, research facilitators, research contracts officers, compliance officers, research communications staff, among others. And research administrators are uniquely positioned to provide a different perspective on where the pressure points are and where libraries might have the biggest impact on campus research success. These people work with individual researchers and learn about their stumbling blocks, learn about reasons for grant failure, learn and understand reasons for project and completion. And they also have a holistic view that can see system-wide campus research support needs. So both librarians and research administrators regard themselves as integral to the mission of the university, but there's been virtually no documented dialogue between the two professions in the literature of either field. So my study sought to analyze the recent literature of each profession to map the priorities and concerns of each with regards to research support. And this took the form of a content analysis using in vivo a graduate or a student exchange assistant and I each coded some of the literature and sort of came back and talked through it until we achieved consistency and then we went off and in close collaboration coded these bodies of literature. There were certainly themes that I expected to see emerging in the literature when I started out, but I also added themes and coding categories as I went along because there were things that emerged that I hadn't necessarily expected to see. So that was kind of the process that we went through. Then the coded articles were analyzed, ascertain and compare topics of concern and that are addressed by the literature of each profession. They were also studied to determine if research administrators were aware of library expertise and resources related to their concerns as well as to suggest potential areas for further library activity to support the research enterprise. So essentially what I was looking at was a content analysis of journal articles published in these two professions. So as far as journals in the research admin literature, the titles I looked at are up there and there seem to be three main journals that are sort of the professional literature for research administrators. So I included all three of those in my analysis. As far as the LIS literature, I included what I would consider the two major journals publishing about academic librarianship in North America, so the Journal of Academic Librarianship and College and Research Libraries and I also included two Canadian journals that publish across library sectors but include academic libraries and these are the evidence based library and information practice as well as partnership, the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice in an attempt to up the Canadian content of it in my analysis. As far as limitations, only articles addressing research topics were included, so when I came across articles that focused exclusively on instructional technique for undergraduates, those were not included in the analysis and I also limited myself to articles published in the last five years. I thought this limitation made sense, it created a manageable project and given the speed with which technology research and libraries are changing, I thought it would produce the most relevant results. So of course the most basic analysis you can do in a content analysis is sort of a word frequency search and there are a few interesting things that emerge from this preliminary step. Topics that were mentioned with similar frequency and frequently within the two literatures included journals, community, publishing, public, data. But there were also terms that appeared very frequently in the research admin literature that didn't make it even into the top 100 terms in the LIS literature, things like impact and culture. Conversely, there were terms that occurred frequently in the LIS literature that did not occur frequently in the research admin literature, not in the top 100. And these included terms like copyright, digitizing, citation, searching, technology, repository and open access. Of course one question that interested me was how often does the research admin refer to librarians as providers of services needed by researchers or as a potential partner for providing services and support? Sadly it was two out of the 93 articles that I looked at. And the mentions, the first one was kind of curious to me, talked about a library offering a fee based editing service for researchers which isn't something that most libraries I'm familiar with offer so that was a bit of a curiosity. And the other one provided a broad overview of library resources and facilities as evidence that an institution supports research. But it was interesting that none of this body of work through all of these articles made any mention of the services in support of research, which we will see dominate the LIS literature on the topic. I also looked at how often are librarians talking about research administrators, the research office, in their work about research support. And similar kind of numbers, you look at 3% of the articles. And these mentions were in the context of RDM, research data management, the undergraduate research experience, and scholarly communication. I thought it was interesting, there was one article that really looked at, you know, on undergraduate research that kind of looked at the relationship between these, you know, the two disciplines. And the article said, and I quote, one library cited lack of communication between the library and the undergraduate research office. One had attempted to convince the undergraduate research office of the value of library specific support only to have failed in the endeavor, so there's my little sad face about that. So those were sort of some basic takeaways from a very surface level look at the literature. And then we got into our deep dive, which was our coding and our thematic analysis of the literature to look at different representations and perspectives on specific concepts and really focussing on what topics and themes are prevalent in the literature of one discipline, not in the other, as well as what are shared concerns and how are those manifested differently or the same between the two disciplines. So first of all, there were certain themes that were prominent in the research admin literature but not in the library literature. And there were some that were no surprise to me, obviously the role of the research administrator, the research officer in institutional research is going to be of interest to their literature much more so than the LIS literature. I also found that there was a lot of talk about research ethics in the research admin literature, less so, well, very little in the LIS literature, again not surprising because certainly in North America research ethics offices typically reside within the research admin structure. I was a little more curious to see that there was an emphasis in the RAA literature that did not appear in the library literature on institutional culture and institutional research culture and institutional research strategy. I thought that was interesting because I think my library and a lot of libraries I'm familiar with really do see ourselves as an essential part of the institutional research culture but perhaps we're not communicating that in the same kinds of terms or in the same direct way that the research admin literature is addressing that topic. And research collaboration was something that was a much more prevalent topic in the research admin literature which was interesting as well because my university is involved with a lot of collaborative research projects. There's been a lot of issues come up related to data management for collaborative research projects, access to resources from people from different institutions. So we certainly have dealt with a lot of issues around research collaboration but those were not finding their way into the library literature. And of course I wanted to look at the flip side. So what kinds of things are prominent in the library literature but not appearing in the research admin literature? And again there were things that didn't surprise me. So the information needs of researchers, you know that's kind of our ball of acts so I was not surprised to see that dominate in the research or in the library literature. The library enroll in institutional research and library collections and particularly digital collections. However, there were some things that I was surprised to not see in the research admin literature that were very heavy themes in the library literature and these included repositories, subject repositories but also institutional repositories. Research data management was very rarely mentioned in the research admin literature. Citation analysis and bibliometrics as well as scholarly communication and open access. There were topics that were in common so those were some of the areas where there was a significant difference in what the literatures were addressing in terms of research topics, research support. Topics in common included research funding, particularly grants, research impact, research infrastructure, research methodologies as well as use of research. But despite the fact that these were topics in common they were dealt with in very different ways and the concerns within these broader categories were very different between the literatures of the two professions. They seemed to be going in diverging directions in thinking about this. These are all pictures from my university only in Saskatchewan do we get our donations where the president is outside wearing her two can scarf. Research funding is one topic that was a dominant theme in the literature of both disciplines but very different emphasis. In the library literature discussions of research funding focused almost exclusively on issues around open access. So requirements of funding agencies, APCs, author funds. There were a few exceptions, two articles that spoke about the library and role in grant applications. One that talked about librarians leading workshops for graduate students on funding opportunities. But by and large mentions of funding and funding issues in the library literature on research support talked about open access and the funding tellages associated with that. The research admin literature was much more diverse and interestingly enough never mentioned open access or scholarly communications as a research funding issue at all. Instead it focused on collaborative grant writing with community partners, internal funding programs to build capacity for larger grant applications and institutional readiness and support for large grant applications. So what are the implications of this for my role or our practice? I think we need to realize that research administrators may not be seeing open access and scholarly communication as a funding issue. Both in terms of grant requirements and the funds required to meet grant criteria. To me this suggests that there's a potential education role we could be playing in ensuring that they understand the financial implications of the scholarly communications infrastructure. And perhaps help us as advocates to make changes to that system. Another topic that was addressed in the literature of both of these fields was research impact. In the LIS literature the vast majority of these articles on research impact were citation analyses or bibliographic studies assessing the literature of specific disciplines. There were assessing the literature of specific disciplines often with an eye to what are the collection development implications of those. There were also some other citation studies that looked at the impact of specific library services or practices on research impact. So for example the use of interlibrary loan and its relation to institutional research impact. The research admin literature was very different again. The primary focus there was the social and community impact of research as well as the complexities and difficulties of assessing impact of research. Again there was a totally different focus in discussions of research impact among the two professions. Some thoughts that I had around this were could we broaden our studies of research impact beyond citation to other topics and recognize and explore research impact methodologies that extend beyond citation analysis. To think about what else can we contribute to studies of research impact as well as how we can educate research administrators on the role that we can play in assessing research impact or helping them in those discussions at any rate. Research methodologies, here's some of our students out by the creek during their turtle research. Turtle research seems to be a big thing right now. So there was also a fair bit of work where a fair number of articles where research methodologies were the focus or the subject matter of the articles. In the LIS literature more than three quarters of these articles talking about research methodologies were reviews of various research methodologies that can be employed in LIS. And this differed somewhat from the research admin literature which explored various research methodologies. But they were all written, pretty much all written from the perspective of a researcher who had used a particular methodology and was talking about the challenges associated with implementing it. So LIS was sort of the general overview of a method that and it wasn't contextualized in any way. This was interesting to me in suggesting new ways to increase librarian knowledge around research methodologies. I'm involved in the librarians research institute in Canada and we often find that librarians don't know a lot and want to know more about the potential for different research methodologies in their own work. So this suggested to me that there may be different ways that we can be demonstrating to them the opportunities and challenges associated with specific methodologies. Research infrastructure. Research infrastructure, the LIS literature focused on and I'm sure this is no surprise to anyone, what could be called digital research infrastructure. And a quarter of the articles on digital research infrastructure focused on specific search tools. So things like PubMed versus Google Scholar, those kinds of things. Another quarter of the articles on this topic talked about scholarly communications infrastructure. So open access and institutional repositories. And almost another quarter talked about infrastructure for research data management. In this whole body of literature, there was only really two articles that talked about physical infrastructure in the library literature and those were in terms of the needs of graduate students. In the research admin literature, they talked about sort of those research admin systems that they have that manage the research process right from the initial funding application to research outputs. But by and large, they seem to start with specific needs. So research funding need or research grants, ethical conduct of research, research communication and then talk about different ways to meet that need. And I thought that was kind of interesting because the LIS literature really focused, started with a tool or a solution and figured out how to work towards how can we use this. And the research admin literature almost went the other way where it started with sort of a problem or an issue and then looked at potential solutions. So I thought that was interesting. And then finally, use of research. So use of research was again a topic that recurred throughout the literature of both fields. In the LIS literature, fully half of the articles addressing use of research focused on knowledge mobilization in academic libraries. And the remaining half talked about the role of open access in increasing the use and uptake of citation of literature. The research admin literature focused on knowledge transfer, knowledge mobilization, and community engagement. And all of these works in the research admin literature emphasized getting knowledge out beyond the traditional academic environment to industry, to the public, to policymakers. So it was very interesting to me that none of them mentioned open access. Because to me that's one of the most appealing things about open access is the potential to extend the reach of research beyond academia. And certainly research administrators were not seeing or talking about open access as a way to achieve what seemed to be a very important goal to them. So I thought that was interesting. It suggested to me that there may be an appetite among research administrators to learn more about open access and the potential that it holds. And that there is potentially an educational role for librarians there and an opportunity to reach out and collaborate with research administration in advancing open access as a policy and an approach within an institution. So basically my conclusion after all of this was that there are bridges to be built. Well there are definitely some areas of shared concern and focus between the literature of the two professions. There's little conversation or cross-referencing going on. We really seem to be working as two solitudes in research support. This means that we miss out on opportunities to expand our role in research support, to highlight our contributions, to collaborate with new partners, and ultimately to further enhance the services that we offer to researchers. I wanna just conclude by acknowledging Carl who gave me a small research and librarianship grant to conduct this research. And my cool dude research assistant John Cap who was the most excellent at coding. So thank you.