Academic librarians and Archivists have been active ly involved with Data Curation and Digital Curation activities for many years, and institutional repositories for academic scholarship are well established.
Content Curation, on the other hand, serves a very different purpose in the academic research process, providing a way to create new value and organization from the current influx of information from the myrad of sources available to the contemporary researcher today. Join the author of the popular website Personal Knowledge Management for Academia & Librarians as she presents techniques and applications offering new avenues of scholarship and community building for research faculty, and outlines ways in which liaison librarians can capitalize on the emerging outreach opportunities offered by the content curation movement.
- content curation,
- academic outreach,
- graduate librarians
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/crystal_renfro/11/