Practical Skills and Tips for Research: From Proposal to Presenting

For more information or to schedule this course, please contact Skye Bickett <skyebi@pcom.edu>.

This face-to-face course will give participants practical tips and tools in order to complete a research project while still doing their day job. Taking a workshop approach, this course will allow participants to prepare and plan on completing a research project with actionable steps to move forward with at their library. Research methods will be discussed along with recommendations on the IRB process, surveys, statistics, funding resources, and potential presentation/publication opportunities.

Learning Objectives

Participants will become familiar with and gain an understanding of:

1) how to define a topic;

2) how to identify needs for information, tools, and support;

3) the basic types of research;

4) the IRB process;

5) writing and administering surveys;

6) basic statistics resources and use of Excel to analyze statistics;

7) need and resources for funding; and

8) potential presentation/publication opportunities.

Agenda

5 minutes: Introductions and objectives 

5 minutes: The importance of research to the library profession 

10 minutes: Selecting and defining a topic 

15 minutes: Identifying information needs and tools

15 minutes: Support from leadership and mentors

25 minutes: Group Activity

20 minutes: Types of research

15 minutes: IRB approval

10 minutes: Break 

15 minutes: Funding

20 minutes: Gathering and analyzing data 

20 minutes: Presenting your research

25 minutes: Group Activity

20 minutes: Publishing articles

10 minutes: Other options for reporting results

10 minutes: Wrap-up & evaluation

Facility Requirements

Wifi, computer with Office Suite or computer hook-up, projector, screen, outlets.

MLA CE Credits: 4

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