Mining a Librarian: An Economist, a Data Set, EndNote Web and a Book

Monday, February 23, 2015 at 4:15 PM–5:00 PM CST

Room 105

Conference Track

4. External Relationships

Keywords

collaborate, faculty, citation, economics, game theory, water, librarian, book, data set, bibliography, research, presentation of data, editing

Learning Objectives

Librarians can collaborate with faculty on scholarly projects, particularly those involving a large bibliography.
Librarians can help with research, data clean-up, writing, editing, and with data presentation.
Marketing the product and the potential service is the key to increasing these types of collaboration in the future.

Abstract

An economist approached a librarian to help research for an article on game theory and water. This evolved into a 5-year project with a contract for a short monograph. Hundreds of citations were corralled with EndNote Web. Data consistency and accuracy required careful management. Marketing will grow future faculty-librarian collaborations.