DIANA GARFIELD

Biography: Diana Garfield is currently Academic Liaison Librarian for Business and Management at Anglia Polytechnic University Chelmsford. She is a registered Practitioner of the Higher Education Academy and has a particular interest in developing innovative methods of learning and teaching within academic libraries. Previous projects include “The evolving role of the teacher-librarian in the hybrid library” 2002, a research project on information literacy issues in higher education.

Title:Using research to support teaching

Summary:  Nationally there has also been debate on the role of research within higher education and increased interest in the research/teaching nexus. Support for research : support for learning was the title of a project carried out by Academic Liaison Librarians at APU which investigated the relationship between learning resources and research resources. We looked at whether researcher/teachers encourage their students to use the same resources they themselves use for their research and how far the move to electronic resources has affected the relationship between learning and research materials.  The presentation will outline the results of interviews carried out with 21 academics from across the whole of the University, who are both teachers and researchers.  Do research and learning resources overlap?  Are students encouraged to engage with research resources?  What kinds of resources are used?  How do the answers to these questions affect the provision of library services?  We may provide some answers but we also hope to engage in a discussion with delegates about the issues raised.