Abstract

California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) is one of the 23 campuses within the California State system. It is a four-year, public university, emphasizing comprehensive undergraduate education with a total enrollment of ~20,000 undergraduate and graduate students (96% undergraduate). Teaching and scholarship are both required by faculty but with limited research support services. A survey of faculty research data services needs was conducted in 2012. Survey invitations were emailed to a stratified random sample of 449 faculty (tenure-track or tenured assistant, associate and full professors only) and 226 responded for an overall response rate of 50%. The survey results provided a foundation from which services were created and have evolved over the last eight years in the Robert E. Kennedy Library and the university. This paper also shares the evolution and repurposing of research resources and services to support both faculty and students.

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

Number of Pages

41

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URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/lib_fac/134