Designing Personalized Research Guides: An Outreach Strategy for New Teaching Faculty

Abstract

Across academic libraries, subject specialists routinely partner with new faculty to help
them launch or strengthen their research agendas. That commitment guides our work
at Western Carolina University (WCU) in North Carolina. Our new faculty members face
pressure to publish quickly, and those who transition from careers in industry or healthcare
often arrive with limited experience in scholarly communication. To support early
scholarship and to build stronger, more collaborative relationships, the authors introduced
individualized research guides