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Models for Corporate & Academic Library Partnerships
Tim GallatiJune 10, 2013
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Agenda
Shared Challenges
3Connect, Collaborate,
Strategize
4Case
Studies
5Introduction
1Client
Eco-System
2
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Client Eco-System
• Fluid Movement Between Spaces
• Embrace This Perspective
• Avoid Domain Echo-Chamber
“We want to see where we are sending our students.”
Our Clients Are Your Clients
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University of
CaliforniaQualcomm
Shared Challenges
Collaboration
Crowdsource
Activities
Dialogue
“A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren’t echo chambers.” - Margaret Heffernan
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Connect, Collaborate, Strategize
Conferences Research
Internships
Methodology
Qualcomm hosts conferences with UCSD
Mobile SolutionsLibrary StrategiesData Management
Qualcomm inspires academic research at UCLA
Data VisualizationMobile DesignText Mining
Summer internships foster relationships with i-Schools
Usability StudiesUser ExperienceResearch Practices
Colleagues share techniques in areas of expertise
Agile DesignLibrary AnalyticsUsability Research
Day long conference to present and discuss common issues.
Poster session features data visualization project with UCLA
Interns share emerging practices and learn new skills
Specialists share their practices with colleagues across domains.
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Mobile Solutions− Agile Design− Single Sign On; Security
Library Strategies− Structural Changes− Direction & Positioning
Data Management− Data Curation Program; NSF Requirements− Data Analysis & Research Delivery (One to Many)
Networking
Connection ConferenceUCSD Engineering Library Staff & Qualcomm Library
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InternshipsUCLA MLIS Intern Summer 2012
Usability Study− Functional Improvements− Exploratory Research
Findings− Information Seeking Behaviors− Engineering Knowledge, Engineering Practice− Formation of Research Practices
AnalyticsRelationships with UC Usability TeamsAn “Information” Thing
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Grow Your Solutions NetworkLike Challenges, New PerspectivesWindow Into Client ExpectationsLearn New Tools & Methods
BenefitsAcademic & Corporate Library Partnerships
Participate in Eco-System
Promotes Cross Pollination
Renewed Frameworks
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“Validity is not a commodity that can be purchased with techniques. Instead, it depends on the relationship of your conclusions to the real world, and there are no methods that can assure you that you have adequately grasped those aspects of the world that you are studying.”Joseph A. Maxell in Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (86).