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An Exploratory Study Of Accomplished Librarian-Researchers, Marie Kennedy, Kristine R. Brancolini, David P. Kennedy
An Exploratory Study Of Accomplished Librarian-Researchers, Marie Kennedy, Kristine R. Brancolini, David P. Kennedy
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Objective – This work explores potential factors that may contribute to a librarian becoming a highly productive researcher. An understanding of the factors can provide evidence based guidance to those at the beginning of their research careers in designing their own trajectories and to library administrators who seek to create work conditions that contribute to librarian research productivity. The current study is the first to explore the factors from the perspective of the profession’s most accomplished librarian-researchers.
Methods – This exploratory and descriptive study recruited 78 academic librarians identified as highly productive researchers; 46 librarians participated in a survey about …