Looking after your mental health & wellbeing is something we all try to do, and there are services for students across campus, but…what about staff? We decided to try putting workplace wellbeing at the heart of the Library’s culture…
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Turkish Delights (Rahat Lokum) Flavour Five: Academic engagement and research support (Mint, apparently)
By Philip Keates
So, today we’ll be exploring how libraries worldwide attempt to engage with their academic staff, and how they try to support them in their research. We’ll also have a look at ways in which librarians might go about conducting their own research, in assessing how effective services are, and which new services might be required. A slightly tenuous connection, you say? Well, it’s all broadly about research, in a loose sense, and I couldn’t find anywhere else to shoehorn in the information on surveys, so deal with it. You’re getting plenty of blog post bang for your Erasmus buck here, so I’d appreciate fewer smart comments, thank you very much.
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