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Opening up the dialogue on research data: How librarians at La Trobe University are enabling the process

Kerry SullivanLa Trobe University LibraryInformation Literacy and beyond: To boldly go where no librarian has gone before. CRIG : 26 November 2014

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Melbourne sculptor Charles Robb, who turned Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor, Charles La Trobe, on his head, said “it embodies the notion that universities should turn ideas on their heads.”

http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/statue-charles-la-trobe

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Research at La Trobe Universitylatrobe.edu.au/research/

• 1,389 researchers: 339 research staff, 1050 teaching & research staff

• 1,700 HDR students

• 32 Research Institutes Centres

• 2 Research Development Parks

• 20 Disciplinary Research Programs

• 5 Research Focus Areas (RFAs):

Building healthy communities

Securing food, water and the environment

Sport exercise and rehabilitation

Transforming human societies

Understanding disease

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Image area

Traditional

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New roles

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La Trobe University Library staff circa 1980s

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Wiki training ground

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La Trobe University’s Repository – Research Online

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Impact of the secondment

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