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Undergraduate research is often conflated with standard end-of-semester research papers, featuring APA style bibliographies and a certain number of sources. But in fact, undergraduate research is one of several high-impact educational practices identified by George Kuh and the Association of American Colleges & Universities, and is increasingly seen as a vital part of the undergraduate experience. Research helps students connect the dots between their interests, general education courses, writing requirements, and major coursework, and increases learning, retention, enrollment in graduate education, and engagement in future work. In 25 chapters featuring 60 expert contributors, Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian examines how the structures that undergird undergraduate research, such as the library, can become part of the core infrastructure of the undergraduate experience. It explores the strategic new services and cross-departmental collaborations academic libraries are creating to support research: publishing services, such as institutional repositories and undergraduate research journals; data services; copyright services; poster printing and design; specialized space; digital scholarship services; awards; and much more. These programs can be from any discipline, can be interdisciplinary, can be any high-impact format, and can reflect upon an institution’s own history, traditions, and tensions. As higher education becomes more competitive—for dollars, for students, for grant money, for resources in general—institutions will need to increase their development of programs that provide the experiential and deep learning, and increased engagement, that research provides. The scholarly and extracurricular experiences of college are increasingly becoming a major part of marketing college education. Beyond the one-shot, beyond course-integrated instruction, Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian is a detailed guide to how librarians can help students go beyond a foundation of information literacy toward advanced research and information management skills.

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Merinda Kaye Hensley, Co-Editor, is the Instructional Services Librarian and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the Co-coordinator of the Scholarly Commons, a library unit that serves the emerging research and technology needs of scholars in data services, digital humanities, digitization, and scholarly communication. She teaches, coordinates and provides leadership for the Savvy Researcher, an open workshop series addressing advanced research and information management needs of graduate students and faculty. Starting in Spring 2013, Merinda will teach LIS 590AE: Advanced Information Literacy and Instruction at Illinois. She is active in ACRL, serving as Member-at-Large (2010-2012) for the Instruction Section and is currently a member of ACRL's Student Learning and Information Literacy Committee. Merinda presents nationally and internationally on her research, incorporating scholarly communication into information literacy instruction and improving teaching skills of new librarians. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Arizona and an Master of Science in Library Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Co-Editor is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Illinois Wesleyan University. She provides leadership for scholarly communication programs and services, including Digital Commons @ IWU. She works with students, faculty and staff to provide guidance on authors' rights, copyright, and open access. As Managing Faculty Co-Editor of the Undergraduate Economic Review, she works closely with students on the publishing process. She provides research consultation, collection development and instruction to four departments at IWU, supervises Access Services, and is involved in faculty governance. She is active in the Association of College and Research Libraries, and her research interests include library publishing, undergraduate research and scholarly communication programs at liberal arts colleges. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from Oberlin College and her Master of Science in Library Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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