The Making Research Accessible Initiative: A Case Study in Community Engagement and Collaboration

Aleha McCauley, A. Towle
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Recently community engagement has emerged as a priority among universities, offering new opportunities for their libraries. A literature scan of community-centred work in libraries reveals diverse examples but a lack of conceptual definitions or frameworks to  help practitioners advance their work for social impact.  We present a case study using the Carnegie Foundation definition of community engagement and apply two conceptual frameworks: living lab constructs  and boundary spanning theory. The living lab constructs provide a framework to describe an innovation process that addresses a social challenge, experiments with specific actions for change, and defines specific returns or social impact. Boundary spanning theory provides a framework to help university leaders conceptualize linkages to community in ways that account for institutional complexity and foster reciprocal, mutually beneficial relationships with community partners. We use these two frameworks to describe the Making Research Accessible initiative which has three goals: i) increase the accessibility and impact of research done in the community; ii) increase the availability to researchers of community-generated research;  iii) create opportunities for  community and  university members to share information and learn from each other. From the  case study, we summarize  what we have learned about community engagement to be of general relevance to library practitioners.
使研究无障碍倡议:社区参与与合作的案例研究
最近,社区参与已成为大学的优先事项,为图书馆提供了新的机会。图书馆以社区为中心的工作的文献扫描揭示了各种各样的例子,但缺乏概念定义或框架来帮助从业者推进他们的工作,以产生社会影响。我们提出了一个案例研究,使用卡内基基金会对社区参与的定义,并应用两个概念框架:生活实验室构建和边界跨越理论。生活实验室结构提供了一个框架来描述创新过程,该过程解决了社会挑战,实验了特定的变革行动,并定义了特定的回报或社会影响。边界跨越理论提供了一个框架,帮助大学领导者以考虑制度复杂性的方式将与社区的联系概念化,并促进与社区合作伙伴的互惠互利关系。我们使用这两个框架来描述“使研究无障碍”计划,该计划有三个目标:i)增加社区研究的可及性和影响;Ii)增加社区产生的研究对研究人员的可用性;Iii)为社区和大学成员创造分享信息和相互学习的机会。从案例研究中,我们总结了我们所学到的与图书馆从业人员普遍相关的社区参与。
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