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Building a Research Culture

Binder, A., & Hall, L. (2015, June). Creating communities of practice: A shared culture of professional development. In Proceedings of the Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians.
Detlor, & Lewis. (2015). Promoting Academic Library Research Through the "Faculty-Member-In-Residence" Program. The Journal of Academic Librarianship,41(1), 9-13.
Drabinski, E., & Walter, S. (2016). Asking Questions that Matter. College & Research Libraries, 77(3), 264-268.
Hoffmann, K., Berg, S., & Koufogiannakis, D. (2017). Understanding Factors that Encourage Research Productivity for Academic Librarians. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 12(4), 102-128.
Knievel, J., Gerke, J., Couture, J., & Kuglitsch, R. "Inorganic is Still Good for You: Building a Structured Group Mentoring Program for Librarians" (2016).University Libraries Faculty & Staff Contributions. 74.

Examples of LIS research

While these articles were selected as examples of study types, these categories are not mutually exclusive;

Content analysis, text mining

Case studies

Ethnography

Mixed Methods

Theory / application

Scoping reviews

Systematic reviews