[Libs-Or] NEW Orbis Cascade Research Interest Group

[Robin A. Paynter]

*Announcing the **Orbis Cascade Alliance Research Interest Group*

The Research Interest Group has been formed to facilitate communication 
and discovery between institutions, providing a forum for discussion and 
development of collaborative research on all aspects of library work.

The objectives of this group include: 1) Helping each other learn how to 
do better research and 2) Making more efficient use of our collective 
resources, thus advancing our individual research interests more 
quickly. Pursuing these two major objectives has the additional benefit 
of providing the qualitative and quantitative data necessary for 
improved assessment and advocacy.

Results from our collaborative research would be open and shared for 
others' benefit.

Potential collaborations include (but are not be limited to):

    * Finding examples of cooperative research utilized elsewhere.
    * Comparing existing data between institutions (e.g. web logs).
    * Seeking grant support to fund research activities.
    * Listing people's expertise in various domains and available
      institutional resources.
    * Division of fees among participants to develop high quality
      measures (cheaper and higher quality end product than everyone
      creating measures individually).
    * Utilizing the same measure at different institutions (results
      illustrate each institution's uniqueness).
    * Utilizing different measures for the same question. Results
      indicate the strengths and weaknesses of different measures.
    * Drawing upon expertise within consortial institutions: information
      about conducting research, the study body, or other topics of
      interest to the group (e.g. how or when to do an IRB proposal).

Flexible research groups determine areas of interest and conduct 
research topics in rotation -- e.g. one year focus on collection 
development research, next year on user services and the following year 
on the web.  Depending on institutional needs we could focus these 
studies in different library domains (instruction pre/post test, web 
site usability testing, collection development analysis and more).


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/*To subscribe visit this website and scroll down to ALLIANCE-RIG row: 
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*/Questions?/*
Please email Laura Zeigen (OHSU, zeigenl at ohsu.edu) or Robin Paynter 
(PSU, paynter at pdx.edu)
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*Robin Paynter*
Social Sciences Librarian
220D Library
Portland State University

503.725.4501
503.725.4524
paynter at pdx.edu
http://www.pdx.edu/library/paynter.html

"The fragmentation of rational knowledge in the postmodern world has 
produced a focus on information that is unaware of its history." -- 
Marcus Breen (1997)

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