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Kent State University Libraries provides research support services for university investigators throughout the research lifecycle. We aim to support both large and small research projects and investigators of all types (students, faculty, and staff). This site is designed to pull together a number of those resources and provides investigators with access to experts in University Libraries as well as Research & Economic Development and the Division of Information Technology. Choose the topic below for further information.

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News from academic and research libraries, evolving academic library research support services: research ethics.

Author: Roxanne Missingham, University Librarian, Australian National University

Introduction

Academic libraries are fundamental supporters of research activities in their institutions. The digital environment has opened up the collections and services so that they sit within reach in every lab and researchers’ desktop as a part of the research toolkit that supports research in every discipline. The extensive connection with researchers has provided the opportunity to engage with this community to implement many new services to meet their needs.

At the Australian National University, a member of the International Alliance of Research Universities, the Dean of Science commented some years ago that he visited the digital library every day, relying more than ever on the full range of library services. For those in the humanities and social sciences the library is perceived as their laboratory, the research infrastructure on which their work depends. Professor Frank Bongiorno recently stated, “For historians, libraries and archives are the laboratory” (Bongiorno, 2022). This provides an environment where the impact of developments in research support by libraries has a significant benefit to the academic community within their institution.

Over the past decades, academic library services have evolved significantly, in particular with the revolution to a digital or e-research environment. A visit to an academic library website will reveal a wealth of services and products supporting research – from special collections to tailored support services.

Research ethics is an area that has benefited from the new library services that have been created to enhance research activity. Together with established services that support research more generally, services have been extended to provide strong support for compliance with, and capabilities to deal with, research ethics matters.

Applying the lens of research ethics to library activities provides the opportunity to reveal an important value from modern academic libraries. The work of the library in this area is vital infrastructure for successful research within institutions.

Research ethics and integrity

The study of ethics reaches back to the Greeks. Aristotle (Aristotle 1999, Aristotle 2002) proposed a philosophy of ethics that was a new and separate area of discourse. In summary, the approach was one that proposed that “moral virtue is the only practical road to effective action” (Sachs, n.d.). National and international research ethics standards have evolved dramatically since World War 2. The Nuremberg Code, established in 1948, is recognised as the first formal codification (Weindling, 2001). It stated that “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential”. For information professionals this codification represented new standards and the requirement for documentation to record processes, consents and approvals as an integral part of the research ecosystem.

Research ethics is now required for all human and animal studies, with extensive requirements from funders, governments and institutions. The principles developed to underpin the approaches reflect moral principles that are continually reviewed and tested. They are designed to ensure high ethical norms are met. The norms “promote the aims of research, such as knowledge, truth, and avoidance of error” (Resnik, 2020). Ensuring integrity through research ethics is achieved through a range of institutional services, including that provided by libraries.

Dimensions of library support for research ethics

Research and an analysis of the field of research ethics has developed a number of essential principles. These relate to the practices that are required for compliance and values that are relevant to the nature of the support services required for successful research.

Unpacking the major principles and mapping them to work of academic libraries reveals a wealth of effective and well used activities that are fundamental to ensuring researchers can be confident they are able to comply with research ethics. A well-established set of principles (Shamoo and Resnik 2015) includes the following:

Strive for honesty in all scientific communications. Honestly report data, results, methods and procedures, and publication status. Do not fabricate, falsify, or misrepresent data. Do not deceive colleagues, research sponsors, or the public.

Keep your promises and agreements; act with sincerity; strive for consistency of thought and action.

Share data, results, ideas, tools, resources. Be open to criticism and new ideas.

Transparency

Disclose methods, materials, assumptions, analyses, and other information needed to evaluate your research.

Intellectual Property

Honor patents, copyrights, and other forms of intellectual property. Do not use unpublished data, methods, or results without permission. Give proper acknowledgement or credit for all contributions to research. Never plagiarize.

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Publish in order to advance research and scholarship, not to advance just your own career. Avoid wasteful and duplicative publication.

Analysing the range of academic library services against these principles provide an insight into the extent of library activities that support research ethics. A summary of the mapping (Figure 1) summarises collection, reference and research services that are all components of holistic support from the library for research ethics.

Figure 1. Mapping of library services to research ethics principles

The investment of academic libraries in collections and services to support research have had a significant impact on building the capacity of our institutions to support research ethics. The key strategic initiatives that have created great support in this area include:

• Digital collections that specifically support research ethics with a wide range of text books, journals and case studies including guides (such as lib guides) and researcher training to facilitate awareness and use of this material;
• Institutional repositories that provide open access to scholarly works including theses, preprints, OA copies of journal articles, non-traditional research outputs and other original research outputs. The most recent figures from Australian and New Zealand universities (Council of Australian University Librarians, 2021) reveal extraordinary strengths in this area. In 2020 (the most recent figures available), there were 1,650,867 resources available through Australian academic repositories and 135,712 through repositories in New Zealand universities. The impact of these in making research open and transparent is extraordinary. The 2020 figures reveal

Downloads from academic institutional repositories 2020 (Council of Australian University Librarians, 2021)

The repositories enable researchers to both make their work openly accessible and access publications from others to increase knowledge of methods and research findings.

• Institutional data support services. Academic libraries now offer a wide range of data support services. These include research data management training, data storage and management of data repositories (such as the Australian National University Data Commons Service). In Australia, a significant program to develop the capabilities of library staff in data management has been delivered by the Australian Research Data Commons and its predecessor, the Australian National Data Services, a federally funded program (Australian Research Data Commons, 2022b). The University of Queensland Library guide on research data exemplifies the emphasis on clear information on data ethics (University of Queensland Library, 2022)

Figure 2. University of Queensland Library Research data guide.

• Specialised reference services have developed that support research with a strong component of research ethics. New courses include systematic reviews, publishing and publishing ethics, ethical writing, using tools such as Endnote and discipline based standards.
• Libraries provide specialist support on copyright and intellectual property. Most universities have a copyright specialist embedded in the library delivering training for researchers, answering enquiries and advising the institution of copyright issues.

Academic libraries are offering a wide range of activities that are vital to supporting researcher’s knowledge of, and capabilities, in relation to research ethics. The evolution in services and products, such as repositories and knowledge of publishing is of benefit to researchers in all disciplines. The evolution of national programs to support greater capabilities of library staff has been an important enabler of these developments.

The digital revolution has enabled greater and more effective outreach to researchers to embed these services across academic institutions. The library services have been vital elements in a partnership to address increasingly complex funder, government and institutional requirements for research. A recent study highlighted the importance of support in these areas (Jackson, 2018). The complexities identified to collect, transport, and store data in compliance with ethical requirements and managing data across the whole data lifecycle are well supported by the new library services.

There is a need to continue to develop the capabilities of librarians to be able to effectively support researchers with emerging issues, such as data management policy, privacy and security. Participation in national programs such as the Institutional underpinnings program for data (Australian Research Data Commons, 2022a) is an important element in this landscape. Over the next decade the evolution of services will provide an exciting area for the academic library community.

Roxanne Missingham , Australian National University

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Aristotle. (1999).  Metaphysics , Joe Sachs (trans.). Santa Fe, NM, Green Lion Press

Aristotle. (2002).   Nicomachean Ethics , Joe Sachs (trans.). Newbury, MA, Focus Philosophical Library, Pullins Press

Australian National University. (2022).   Data Commons. Canberra, ANU. https://datacommons.anu.edu.au/DataCommons/

Australian Research Data Commons. (2022a). Institutional Underpinnings. ARDC. https://ardc.edu.au/collaborations/strategic-activities/national-data-assets/institutional-underpinnings/

Australian Research Data Commons. (2022b). Resources for librarians. Canberra, ARDC. https://ardc.edu.au/resource_audience/librarians/

Bongiorno, Frank. (2022). The Humanities Laboratory. Canberra, The Australian Academy of the Humanities. https://humanities.org.au/power-of-the-humanities/the-humanities-laboratory/

Council of Australian University Librarian. (2021) Data file for CAUL statistics 2020. Canberra, CAUL. https://www.caul.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/stats/2020_caul_statistics.xlsx

Jackson, Brian . (2018) The Changing Research Data Landscape and the Experiences of Ethics Review Board Chairs: Implications for Library Practice and Partnerships. The Journal of Academic Librarianship , 44 (5), p. 603-612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2018.07.001

Resnik, David B. (2020). What is ethics in research and why is it important. Washington, D.C., National Institute of Environmental Health Science. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/whatis/index.cfm

Sachs, Joe. (n.d.). Aristotle: Ethics. Internet Encyclopaedia of philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/aristotle-ethics/

Shamoo, Adil E. and Resnik, David B. (2015). Responsible Conduct of Research. 3rd ed. Oxford,  Oxford University Press.

University of Queensland. Library (2022) Manage research data. St Lucia, UQ Library. https://web.library.uq.edu.au/library-services/services-researchers/manage-research-data

Weindling, Paul. (2001). “The Origins of Informed Consent: The International Scientific Commission on Medical War Crimes, and the Nuremberg Code”. Bulletin of the History of Medicine . 75 (1): 37–71

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ISSN : 0264-0473

Article publication date: 3 June 2019

Issue publication date: 3 June 2019

This paper aims at understanding the current situation of research support services offered by academic libraries in world-leading universities and providing useful implications and insights for other academic libraries.

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Of the top 100 universities listed in the QS World University Rankings in 2017, 76 libraries were selected as samples and a website investigation was conducted to explore the research support services. The statistical method and visualization software was used to generalize the key services, and the text analysis and case analysis were applied to reveal the corresponding implementation.

Research support service has become one of the significant services of academic libraries in the context of e-research and data-intensive research. The research support services can be generally divided into seven aspects, as follows: research data management (62, 81.58 per cent), open access (64, 84.21 per cent), scholarly publishing (59, 77.63 per cent), research impact measurement (32, 42.11 per cent), research guides (47, 61.84 per cent), research consultation (59, 77.63 per cent) and research tools recommendation (38, 50.00 per cent).

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This paper makes a comprehensive investigation of research support services in academic libraries of top-ranking universities worldwide. The findings will help academic libraries improve research support services; thus, advancing the work of researchers and promoting scientific discovery.

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Acknowledgements

This paper is one of the research outcomes of the project supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of P.R. China (Project Name: Research on the Formation Mechanism and Service of the Federation of Institutional Research Data Repository in Big Data Environment, Project No. 71573198).

Si, L. , Zeng, Y. , Guo, S. and Zhuang, X. (2019), "Investigation and analysis of research support services in academic libraries", The Electronic Library , Vol. 37 No. 2, pp. 281-301. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-06-2018-0125

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The Libraries offer numerous services to support data needs. From conception through publication, and all points in-between, we provide guidance throughout the research life cycle. 

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The Libraries have collected tens of thousands of datasets   for Stanford researchers. They are broadly available   as enduring assets that support reproducible research.

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The Libraries employ scores of subject and technical specialists who are experts in supporting data-intensive research.

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Multiple centers within Stanford Libraries specialize in domain-specific content and methods, including hands-on support for data-intensive projects. We offer skill-building workshops and consultations, and support emerging web-based platforms for exploration and computation.

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Data curation experts throughout the Libraries document, describe, and structure data to maximize access and help ensure preservation. This enables dataset discovery, exploration, and reuse to meet FAIR data and funder requirements.

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The Libraries support data publication via delivery platforms and search tools. The Office of Scholarly Communications advises on funder requirements, licenses, and impact, helping researchers make informed data-sharing decisions.

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This section explores to support research and outreach services to the clientele of the Central Library using Research Information Management (RIM) and other library resources, services, and products. We at Central Library provide services, resources, products, and expertise to support every phase of your study, teaching, research and extension from discovery and design to creation and sharing. The section takes care of the Faculty Profiling System of IIT Delhi and provides different types of raw and analysed data for different purposes to help institute achieve its goals including for the ranking purpose as well.

Outreach services are now an important component of the libraries through which users are trained to make optimum use of the resources subscribed by the library or available in open access. The section also has the responsibility to conduct Author/Publishing Workshops and to help the users in making use of the academic writing and research tools including Grammarly, different online bibliographic and full-text databases, eBooks, etc.

We further plan to strengthen research services, help to discover and access library and archival materials, data, and e-resources beyond the library catalogue and topic guide for the resources selected by subject specialists to focus your research on a topic, projects and partnerships between the Libraries and research community, to arrange Workshop Specialists to provide instructions on research methods, etc.

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Central Library maintains an institutional repository of electronic thesis and dissertation. Please visit http://eprint.iitd.ac.in/ for access.

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The central library IIT Delhi has an agreement with the following publisher(s) for the publication of the paper under open access without payment of article processing charges (APC). Cambridge- The author can publish in the following journals of CUP without APC. Click here for list of journals. For more details please contact Dr. Vijay Kumar Verma, In-charge of the section, at [email protected]

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The following services are examples of services that we provide for our users. If you are interested in any of these services or do not see a service listed that you need, please contact your library liaison.

Author Support

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Other tools that can help enhance your visibility and the impact of your research:

Academia.edu . A platform to share research, monitor research impact analytics, and track the research of other academics. 

ResearchGate A professional social network of researchers for sharing and discussing research. 

Mendeley A tool for citation management and an academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others, and discover new research. Also tracks how often your research is saved by others as a form of altmetric. 

Publons A tool for tracking and verifying your peer review work. Now integrated with Web of Science and ResearcherID. 

LinkTree A free platform designed to simplify the process of sharing multiple links by hosting them all at a single URL. It operates like a landing page, allowing you to direct your audience to different destinations from one page. 

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Library Services joins forces with other teams in UCL to support you during your dissertation or research project.

A dissertation or research project gives you the opportunity to focus in detail on a topic of real interest to you. Although rewarding, the process of researching and writing on a topic at length can also feel isolating, but you are not alone - there is plenty of support at UCL to help you.

In addition to support available within your department, UCL Library Services, the UCL Academic Communication Centre (ACC) and UCL Digital Skills all provide support for the various stages of your dissertation or research project. They have jointly developed a visual tool to direct you to the support you need.

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Areas covered include the writing process, academic integrity, literature searching, systematic reviews / literature reviews, referencing, evaluating information, working with data and getting help.

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A framework to teach library research skills

Embedding library skills within disciplines allows teachers and students to link them to learning outcomes and research requirements. Here, a team of engagement librarians explain how to put a map in place

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Library inductions at the start of a new academic year are also time and staff intensive. As library educators, we want to be consistent with the content we cover with students at all levels, providing our teaching at a point of need. We want to link the library skills students are developing to their subjects, learning outcomes and assessments that need library research skills (such as finding and citing literature).  

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Learners should be supported to develop these skills during their undergraduate or taught postgraduate degree programmes. Our framework describes their expected progression, from being a new undergraduate to final-year student and into employment.

Our framework was created after benchmarking other national and international skills frameworks. We asked academic and library colleagues to comment on an initial draft, then incorporated their feedback and piloted the framework with two academic schools. We gathered more feedback from the teaching staff, librarians and students, and incorporated their input into the next iteration. We now have a process to continuously review and develop our framework.  

How do we use our library research skills framework?  

Our library research skills framework has been instrumental in helping our librarians to create curriculum maps. Librarians have identified the core or compulsory modules within each programme and mapped the learning outcomes to the skill areas of the framework. This allows our librarians to align their teaching, and learners can understand the link between library research skills and their subjects. As a result, librarians’ teaching is, as a whole, more sustainable and provides better quality support for our students.  

Ultimately, we want to map out the best path for our learners to acquire library research skills throughout their degrees and into their lives post-qualification. The framework helps us to have conversations with our academics about creating relevant learning outcomes and touch points in their programmes and modules. It includes content, resources and activities pitched at the appropriate level for the learners and which librarians can use in their teaching or academic staff can use independently with their students.  

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The University of Southampton’s education and student experience committee has endorsed our new approach to embedded teaching of library research skills. Feedback from academics in our pilots indicates that they fully support our approach.  

“The library research skills framework is a welcome approach to improving students’ information literacy and awareness of library resources and support…We are keen to move away from overloading students with information during induction and move towards support at the point of need throughout the academic journey,” said a principal teaching fellow for education development in the Southampton Business School.

Our librarians have found the framework a helpful tool in combination with curriculum mapping the programmes they teach on. 

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Thomas C. Owen (PhD in history, Harvard, 1973) is an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University (since 2005) and a former professor of history at Louisiana State University (1974-2005). He became interested in Russian social history as a graduate student at Harvard, and he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the social and ideological evolution of the Moscow merchants, 1840-70 ( The social and ideological evolution of the Moscow merchants, 1840-1870, HOLLIS Number : 003894231 ). His collection of materials on Russian social and economic history after 1800 began in 1971, when he, then a PhD student seeking primary sources for his research, purchased from the Lenin Library (Moscow) a microfilm of the 1850-73 portion of Fedor V. Chizhov's diary which was relevant to the dissertation.

After the publication of his first book, on the Moscow merchants in 1981 ( Capitalism and politics in Russia : a social history of the Moscow merchants, 1855-1905 , HOLLIS Number : 000949332 ), Owen widened the scope of his research to include corporations and business organizations throughout the Russian Empire. He continued his study of primary materials during subsequent visits to Moscow again in 1980, 1992, and 1996. Gaining access to and obtaining copies of the desired materials often meant facing challenges that were unusual for a Western researcher, as well as seeking the help of American library professionals. Thus, Marianna Tax Choldin, of the University of Illinois Library, was instrumental in helping Owen obtain the microfilm copies of Chizhov’s diary (the 1825-50 and 1873-77 portions) from the Lenin Library. Eventually, Fedor V. Chizhov became the subject of Thomas C. Owen's fourth book ( Dilemmas of Russian capitalism : Fedor Chizhov and corporate enterprise in the railroad age , HOLLIS Number : 009439804 )

Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age . Harvard Studies in Business History, no. 44.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. HOLLIS Number : 009439804

Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika .  New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. HOLLIS Number : 005835322

The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800-1917: A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy .  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. HOLLIS Number : 002072257

Capitalism and Politics in Russia: A Social History of the Moscow Merchants , 1855-1905 .  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.  Japanese trans. Tokyo: Bunshindo Press, 1987. HOLLIS Number : 000949332

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“Measuring Business Cycles in the Russian Empire.” Economic History Review 66, no. 3 (Aug. 2013): 895-916.

“The Death of a Soviet Science: Sergei Pervushin and Economic Cycles in Russia, 1850-1930.” The Russian Review 68, no. 2 (Apr. 2009): 221-39.

“Chukchi Gold: American Enterprise and Russian Xenophobia in the Northeastern Siberian Company.”  Pacific Historical Review 77, no. 1 (Feb. 2008): 49-85.

“Autocracy and the Rule of Law in Russian Economic History.”  In The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia , edited by Jeffrey D. Sachs and Katharina Pistor, 23-39.  Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997.

 “Impediments to a Bourgeois Consciousness in Russia, 1880-1905: The Estate Structure, Ethnic Diversity, and Economic Regionalism.”  In Between Tsar and People: Educated Society and   the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia , edited by Edith W. Clowes, Samuel D. Kassow, and James L. West, 75-89.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

“A Standard Ruble of Account for Russian Business History, 1769-1914: A Note.”   Journal of   Economic History 49, no. 3 (Sep. 1989): 699-706.

“The Russian Industrial Society and Tsarist Economic Policy, 1867-1905.”  Journal of Economic History 45, no. 3 (Sep. 1985): 587-606.

“Entrepreneurship and the Structure of Enterprise in Russia, 1800-1880.”  In Entreprepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union , edited by Gregory Guroff and Fred  V. Carstensen, 59-83.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

RUSCORP: A Database of Corporations in the Russian Empire, 1700-1914.  Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, [1993]. HOLLIS Number :  007702503 Internet Link : Data File http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:harvmitd

Edited Publications

Polunov, Aleksandr.  Russia in the Nineteenth-Century: Autocracy, Reform, and Social Change, 1814-1914 .  Translated by Marshall S. Shatz.  Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2005.  (Co-edited with Professor Larissa G. Zakharova of Moscow State University.)

Roosa, Ruth A.  Russian Industrialists in an Era of Revolution: The Associa­tion of Industry and Trade, 1906-1917 .  Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1997.

Russian Studies in History 35, no. 1 (Summer 1996), on entrepreneurship in the Russian Empire, 1861-1914, and 34, no. 1 (Summer 1995), on tsarist economic policy, 1893-1914. 

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One Year Later: Remembering the Final Days Before the Carrier Renovation  

Posted on: April 26, 2024

As we approach the one-year mark since the Carrier Library renovation and expansion began, we can’t help but reflect on our cherished memories of the beloved building, including the lovely party we held to honor Carrier’s past and future! 

Leading up to the temporary closure of Carrier Library in May 2023 , feelings for this building and the memories made in this place poured out on our physical and  virtual memory walls . The sharing culminated on May 11, 2023, with a gathering of hundreds of students, library employees, faculty and staff emeriti, and donors to celebrate Carrier and learn about the renovation. Using a self-guided tour, attendees wandered throughout the building and reminisced about time spent in these spaces, and some left their mark one last time.   

While the building will reopen in 2026 even better than before , we made sure to honor the past even as we look toward an exciting future for this building.  

Heartfelt thanks to everyone who shared a Carrier memory , attended our party, or helped plan it—and to everyone working hard to make the future Carrier a reality! 

You can view this story in the JMU Libraries Magazine , where it originally appeared. If you’re interested in the history of Carrier Library, don’t miss this Visual Timeline of JMU Libraries . To learn more about Carrier’s bright future, visit our Carrier Library Renovation and Expansion website. 

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