POST: Intra-Campus Collaboration Around Research Support

Brian Lavoie, a research scientist at OCLC has published a post about developing formal and informal intra-campus collaboration around research support. He shares several observations garnered from recent discussions by the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) Research Support Interest Group:

• Collaborative relationships on campus are both formal and informal
• Who you know is important … build your networks
• Sustainability can be an issue for informal collaborations
• Appeal to partners’ missions

His discussion and suggestions are highly applicable to those of us working to build research-driven relationships and collaborations across our campuses.