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From Student to Scholar: Building Capacity for Graduate Student Academic Literacies and Research Skills

A team from OCUL institutions has created a new, highly interactive and media-rich online resource to help graduate students in the social sciences develop…

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La Casita Azul: A Unique Project with Significant Consequences

As a result of a short but exciting conversation in 2014, the idea of a York University library in Costa Rica was born. After…

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Once Upon a Time: 2017 OCULA Spring Conference

The theme for this year’s OCULA Spring Conference is Storytime: Using narrative to represent ourselves, our work, and our library, but what is a…

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New terminal degree: Yes or no?

If the role of academic librarians is changing and resembling more that of other faculty, should the PhD be the new terminal degree?

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Research and the “value agenda”

A debate about the form, purpose, and quality of academic librarians’ research is taking place right now in the editorial pages of some of our flagship journals.

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The PhD: New terminal degree?

Academic librarians are “scholar-practitioners.” We have a valued tradition of service (practitioner) but increasingly we also teach full-time and undertake extensive research (scholar).

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Academic librarians and the PhD: Introduction

Academic librarians typically have academic status, freedoms, and responsibilities.

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PhD as resistance: How the personal got political

It is challenging to resist the neoliberal imperatives that govern our work and practices as librarians.

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Career impact

Does obtaining a PhD actually advance your career?

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Why pursue a PhD?

Getting a PhD is rewarding, but it is also a long and sometimes arduous process. Why do it? Thirteen academic librarians (four library directors;…

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Advice to potential PhD students

What advice is important and useful to potential PhD students to understand the doctoral process?

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Costs and gains

What are the costs and gains of doing an advanced degree?

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Canadian RDM Survey: A Success Story Based on Collaboration

Faced with looming changes outlined in the Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management, such as data sharing and preservation, librarians at eleven…

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