As strategic planning is underway, our staff will be reaching out to you and asking the BIG questions:
How can we further your work at Duke?
What challenges can we help you overcome?
What services are the most valuable to you and what is missing?
What additional expertise do we need on our staff?
What additional resources can we provide – technology, software, mobile apps, other?
How can our facility better serve the Duke community?
Below are some of the opportunities and roles we are considering, but I welcome your ideas and suggestions for our future strategic priorities!
- More fully participating in systematic reviews, searches, and beyond
- Serving as partners in research teams
- Providing free access to materials not at Duke
- Eliminating the print book collection
- Creating innovative areas and makerspacers (3D printing, high tech applications)
- Offering data management services
- Showcasing new technologies
- Developing writing and editing services
- Training and assisting in grant preparation
- Embedding a librarian in your department/program
- Transforming some of our space into collaborative meeting spaces
- Consulting on data sharing and management plans
- Digitizing the Archives collection
- Providing more exhibits
- Creating more study or quiet work space
- Teaching evidence-based medicine to all learners
- Digitizing more historical/archival documents
- Participating in Care Redesign and performance improvement
- Submitting manuscripts to comply with public access policies
- Publishing online textbooks and journals
- Supporting data visualization
- Paying author fees for open access journals
- Offering personalized services for early career faculty
- Rounding with clinical teams in the hospitals
Email me at patricia.thibodeau@duke.edu and let me know your thoughts. All ideas are welcome!
Would you rather meet? I will be glad to sit down and talk to you as well. Send me an email or call 919.660-1150.