In Grad School? Make Upcycling Part of Your Research Agenda
Tammy Ivins shares her experience upcycling MSLS coursework to help enhance her research agenda.
Category: Reflection
Student Workers as Research Collaborators: How to Create Mutually Beneficial Research Experiences
In our new post, Duncan Claflin reflects on his research internship with Tim Dolan. This post shares the benefits of conducting research with student workers and shares insight from their collaboration.
No research topic is too esoteric for a librarian
Kimmy Szeto recounts how working across disciplines ended up opening up a wonderful new research area.
Experiencing Administrative Rejection
Our newest post from Manda Sexton talks about experiencing administrative rejection and how that can help inform future research.
The elusive evidence of public library research
LibParlor contributor Margaret A.E. Alexander shares their experiences as both a public and academic librarian and the way research plays out in both spaces.
The story of SOL:AR- Collaborating with cross-institutional stakeholders to create an online postgraduate training resource, A Librarian Parlor Series, Part II
In their second post, LibParlor contributors Eleanor and Kylie give us an update on their SOL:AR project and some things they’ve learned along the way.
Flip the Switch: A Librarian’s Sabbatical Experience, A LibParlor Series, Part II
LibParlor Contributor, Jess Crossfield McIntosh, describes how she changed her sabbatical plans as we entered a pandemic.
Learning to Fail
LibParlor Contributor, Halle Burns, discusses why it’s important to talk about failure and making mistakes during the research process.
Through the Looking Glass: Experiencing the Other Side of Academic Publishing. A Librarian Parlor Series, Part 1
LibParlor Contributors Kristina Clement, Samantha Peter, and Hilary Baribeau discuss their workflow and processes as guest editors for a special issue of a journal.
When Research Gets Personal
LibParlor Contributor, Katie Quirin Manwiller, shares how she found a research project and research community by finding a topic personally important to her.
