Interdisciplinarity and the Liaison Librarian

Sponsored by Springer Nature
Recorded on 11/29/2017

Posted in Scholarly Communication and Research

Summary:

As academia splinters into ever more specialized fields of inquiry, access to broad bodies of knowledge has never been greater. How can today’s liaison librarian add value to the interdisciplinary research of the faculty they serve? Jeff Knapp, the Larry & Ellen Foster Librarian for Communications at Penn State, will discuss some history of the interdisciplinary research movement, and the ways librarians’ expertise can improve interdisciplinary scholarship.


Speaker: 

Jeff Knapp
Larry & Ellen Foster Librarian for Communications
Penn State University