[13] Knowledge sharing across campuses at SDU and the evolving role of library
Creators: name: Shaghaei, Najmeh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: libraries, knowledge, sharing, data, research

description: <strong>Abstract: </strong>In recent years, knowledge sharing has become a great concern for multi-campus universities. They need to identify and implement the most effective ways for improving university performance by fostering collaboration environment across campuses. Since the research libraries are an integral part and the nerve center of many universities with their support of teaching, research and other academic activities strategies for knowledge sharing are needed both for multi-campus universities and their libraries. With the advent of the information and communication technologies, which plays a significant role in knowledge sharing, influences in every aspect of academic libraries, and the way information and knowledge are handled between libraries and universities. The aim of our project is threefold. Firstly we will review of relevant literature on contemporary issues for knowledge sharing behavior in multi-campus universities. Secondly we will examine factors affecting the role of the library in providing right information for researchers. Thirdly we will exemplify how to apply an appropriate model for a multi-campus academic library, where the aim is to facilitate exchange knowledge by individual researchers who want to cross disciplinary boundaries alone or in collaboration with others that initiate and support research and teaching along campuses. For the latter purpose we have chosen our home institution as case: The University of Southern Denmark is a multi-campus university, which operating on several cities. Therefore it is important factor in how we plan and carry out our teaching and research activities as well as all of the services and support effectively. Specifically, this poster presents a study conducted as a basis for developing a “PhD Café” as a university library service to support successful PhD studies and reduce dropout. Through this process, 12 in-depth interviews were conducted, all with PhD students close to completion of their PhD studies. Participants were selected from name lists provided by PhD Schools at the University of Southern Denmark (Faculties of Social Sciences, Humanities and Engineering). <strong>Bio: </strong>Najmeh Shaghaei was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1971. She received the B.C. degree in Physics from Ferdoosi University, Iran, in 1997, and MBA and Ph.D degrees in Business Management from Girne American University, Cyprus, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Meanwhile, she joined the Library of Girne American University, as Library manager, and became member of Anatolian University Libraries Consortium, in Turkey, and Member of School Library Association, in UK. During her time at the GAU, Najmeh also had the chance to teach part-time at faculty of Business and Economics. Her research interest is change management, and knowledge management. During her research, she joined Frankfurt University Library (Germany), Stockholm University Library (Sweden), Delft University Library (Netherlands), Bilkent University library (Turkey) as a guest researcher to finish her book with title “Change Management in Academic Libraries: As they evolve into modern technological workplace” in 2013. She moved to Denmark in 2014 and joined University Library of Southern Denmark as Head of Library at Campus Sønderborg since February 2015.She is currently a member of Danish Research Library Association (DFFU) in Denmark, and also besides her main job as head of Library, Najmeh is in charge of Internationalization at University Library of Southern Denmark. <strong>Bio: </strong>Since 2013, Lone Bredahl works as a research librarian at University Library of Southern Denmark, specializing in research services. Lone graduated from social sciences and obtained her PhD in consumer behaviour from Aarhus School of Business in 2003, and then proceeded into an assistant professorship. Before arriving at the university library at SDU, Lone worked on innovation projects with a range of organizations.