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Center Stage: Performing a Needs Assessment of Campus Research Centers and Institutes |
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| Authors: | Andrea Malone Lisa Martin Christie Peters Cherie Turner Porcia Vaughn |
| Institution: | 1. Foreign Languages &2. Ethnic Studies Librarian, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA;3. Coordinator of Business Research &4. Outreach, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA;5. Head of the Science Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA;6. Chemical Sciences Librarian, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA;7. Biosciences Librarian, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA |
| Abstract: | Outreach to research centers and institutes is often overlooked in academic libraries. This article discusses a needs assessment conducted by the Liaison Services Department at the University of Houston Libraries that reviewed library services to centers and institutes at the University of Houston's main campus. The assessment was conducted for two purposes: to build collaborations with centers and to determine how the libraries might create new services and/or market existing services to meet the centers and institutes' growing research needs. |
| Keywords: | collaboration research centers academic libraries needs assessment |