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As of April 2023 this Padlet is no longer being monitored

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As of April 2023 this Padlet is no longer being monitored

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The purpose of this Padlet was to capture Scholarly Services-specific things that were on our mind in the early stages of the transition into the new Scholarly Services structure. At the March Scholarly Services meeting we agreed that wehave moved on since then and are developing clearer communication channels within the team. As a result, this Padlet has served its purpose and will no longer be monitored as of April 2023.

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I'd like to organise that we run PhD intro classes, maybe with study support, make sure they start on the right foot, know what we offer... maybe in their first month, but not at orientation - LS

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Scholarly Meetings and Partner relationships

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Scholarly Meetings and Partner relationships

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I'd like to see the Scholarly meeting being less about telling the Scholarly team what to do, and more about discussing issues WITH the Scholarly Librarians. I believe we have a wealth of skills and information, we know the clients extremely well. We have solutions that will work. I believe this goes into the relationship with the Library Partners too. Consult with us directly on the problem before speaking to the client or School to get a strong understanding of the situation. Ask us what we think could be good solutions. rather than imposing solutions which may not be a great fit.

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Explore units in various courses offering research synthesis and EBP content and map and review our support across these

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Systematic and advanced review learning materials and teaching plans for disciplines in HASS grouping

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Systematic and advanced review learning materials and teaching plans for disciplines in HASS grouping

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Google guide to scholarly research and evaluation (aka open web concept)

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Google guide to scholarly research and evaluation (aka open web concept)

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Idea for a Libguide with the working title 'Level Up Your Google Game" that provides information about finding and evaluating information on the open web. This could eventually include information relevant to Google's Verification Challenge.

Potential resources: materials provided by Google (e.g. Daniel Russell's book The Joy of Search and the support materials for the Google News Initiative's Verification Challenge) and other key figures in the field. Challenges approach such as "A Google a Day" and the weekly Search ReSearch challenge.

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Misinfo day - do we do this in 2023 or pause for year

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Misinfo day - do we do this in 2023 or pause for year

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Extending find/evaluate information literacy to include thinktanks 

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Extending find/evaluate information literacy to include thinktanks 

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I'm hoping we get to use a sharepoint site and do away with wiki's and u drives.

And I'd like to put in the database tips somewhere so everyone can access them and i can access theirs. i've collected things like Amy Seller's doc on Unformatted endnote which are so helpful.
We could also list useful sites like the Unit Statistics page and the handbook. Just to ensure that all liaisons are aware these central handy resources.

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CAB abstracts - science environment. Should we have this database? ebsco can give it to us

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CAB abstracts - science environment. Should we have this database? ebsco can give it to us

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https://www.cabi.org/publishing-products/cab-abstracts/
Professionally indexed like Medline and psycINFO.
Includes applied life sciences – from agriculture, the environment, and veterinary sciences, to applied economics, leisure/tourism, and nutrition

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CAB Abstracts gives you instant access to over 10.4 million research records, with more than 350,000 new records being added every year. Used by hundreds of the world's leading institutions, including government departments, premier universities, and esteemed research centres, it's the most comprehensive bibliographic database of its kind. Through CAB Abstracts we're able to share research from an incredibly wide range of subjects across the applied life sciences - from agriculture, the environment, and veterinary sciences, to applied economics, leisure/tourism, and nutrition - and our subject specialists guarantee unrivalled coverage by rigorously selecting relevant records from over 10,000 serials, books, and conference proceedings. Our integrated CABI Full Text database also offers you more than 570,000 full journal articles, conference papers, and reports - 80% of which aren't found anywhere else in digital form. Covering publications from over 120 countries in 50 languages from 1973 onwards, including a number of niche, independent journals, CAB Abstracts gives you the fullest global picture for any subject. *Figures as at July 2021

Instant access to over 10.4 million records (with almost 350,000 records added last year)

Over 570,000 FULL TEXT journal articles, conference papers and reports

International coverage, with publications from over 120 countries

Each record hand-selected by our subject specialists from over 10,000 serials, books and conference proceedings

Comprehensive subject indexing with the CAB Thesaurus (CABI's controlled vocabulary tool) making searching easier and providing more precise access to ALL relevant research

CAB Abstracts is available on the following platforms:

Used by hundreds of the world's leading institutions, including 75% of US land-grant universities, together with many of the premier universities and research centres from across the globe, CAB Abstracts is the first choice for agriculture and related applied life sciences.

"CAB Abstracts is the leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world's agricultural literature. It has a longstanding reputation for comprehensive, quality abstracting and indexing, and integrity of its data. This should be the first stop for the serious researcher." - Luti Salisbury, Librarian/Professor, Agriculture, Food and Life Sciences, University of Arkansas Libraries "The search of CAB Abstracts was the most specific and yielded the most trials in the least amount of time." - Alison Avenell, Helen G Handoll and Adrian M Grant, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition "This study indicates that if CAB Abstracts is available for searching the core agricultural serials, doing a literature search in any of all of the other three databases would represent a duplication of effort." - Jodee l. Kawasaki, Indexing of Core Agricultural Serials, in IAALD

As well as selecting from thousands of core scientific journals, CAB Abstracts also offers extensive coverage of "grey" literature from around the world including:

annual reports

general reports

books/book chapters

handbooks

bulletins

monographs

conference proceedings

newsletters

discussion papers

technical information

field notes

theses

Subjects include:

Agricultural engineering

Applied economics and sociology

policy formation

development programmes

the economics of the food industry

natural resources utilization

farm management

aspects of education and research

rural sociology

Animal health

Animal nutrition

Animal production

Aquaculture

Biofuels

Biosafety and Bioterrorism

Biosafety issues associated with introduction of transgenic organisms, including:

Biotechnology

The application of molecular genetics, genetic engineering and in vitro culture to organisms of agricultural importance, with an emphasis on:

Breeding

All aspects of breeding and genetics of animals and plants using traditional approaches and modern techniques, including:

use of genetic resources in breeding

breeders' rights

reproduction

evolution and domestication

Chemistry

pesticides

adjuvants

botanical pesticides

biochemistry of pest organisms

biocontrol

farmed animals and plants

biofuels

chemistry of soils, fertilizers, freshwater and waste water

nutritional biochemistry

Climate change

The effect of climate change on natural resources, covering:

crop production, pests and diseases

animal health and production

human health

agro-economic aspects such as rural development and demography

tourism

the production and processing of bio-fuels

energy co-generation in the sugar industry

Crop science and grasslands

All aspects relating to field and forage crops including:

genetics and breeding

taxonomy

botany

physiology

biochemistry

propagation

production

management and storage

grassland and rangeland ecology, management and sustainability

Ecotourism

Entomology

Environmental science

environment

biodiversity and ecology, including soil science, water resources, organic farming, forestry and integrated crop management

environmental pollution and remediation

issues relating to the conservation of land, forest and soils

biological and genetic resources

climate change effects

nature conservation

Food science and technology

Entire food chain, from farm to fork and beyond including:

composition

quality control

processing

analytical methodologies

safety

hygiene

effect on human health

technology

legislation

Forestry

All aspects of global forest and wood science research, including:

Genetics

Genetics of organisms of agricultural or economic significance and wild relatives, covering:

Helminthology

All aspects of medical and veterinary helminthology of these parasites, including:

genetics

physiology

biochemistry

ecology

pathology

immunobiology

epidemiology and transmission

life cycle

vectors

treatment and control and scientific techniques

Horticultural science

All aspects of horticultural science, including:

genetic resources

breeding

biology

propagation

pests, diseases

crop management

growth models

environmental physiology

postharvest treatment

crop quality

marketing and economics of horticultural crops

Human nutrition

physiology and biochemistry of all nutrients

analytical methodologies

public health nutrition

sports nutrition

nutrition education

dietary surveys

reproduction and diet

human growth

infant feeding

ageing

nutritional status

clinical nutrition

Invasive species

All invasive plants and cyanobacteria or animals of veterinary importance and any invasive animal (including many insects and other arthropods, rodents, feral goats and other mammals) that affect the following:

Leisure and tourism

Social, economic and environmental impacts of activities, products and services in:

Medicinal plants and pharmacology

Microbiology

veterinary microbiology

plant pathogens

mycorrhizas

soil microbiology

forest microbiology

food microbiology

microbiology related to water pollution

toxinogenic fungi

mycotoxins and other toxins

animal vaccines

Microrganisms of veterinary and cultural importance including their:

Mycology

molecular genetics

physiology

biochemistry and systematics

All aspects of mycoses in both humans and animals including:

Natural resources, land/water management

All aspects of soil science and management and all aspects of land resources management including:

Issues relating to the conservation of:

Nematology

plant nematode diseases

other nematodes and hosts

biology

ecology

control

nematicides

nematodes as genetic models

techniques

equipment and machinery

economics

extension

education

Organic and sustainable agriculture

Organic and sustainable crop production and animal husbandry Including:

Parasitology

Medical and veterinary parasitic diseases and vectors and vector-borne diseases, which includes many of the most important tropical diseases. Complete coverage of host organisms, taxonomy, biology and control.

Plant pathology

All types of plant pathogens including:

Plant protection

Comprehensive coverage of the control and management of pests, weeds, parasites and pathogens, including:

Postharvest

All aspects of postharvest research, from harvesting the crop up to the initial stages of processing.

Protozoology

Soil science

All aspects of soil science including soil properties, soil management including:

Veterinary medicine

Comprehensive coverage of veterinary medicine (food animals, pets, sport horses, zoo and wild animals), including:

Virology

Waste management

biological, chemical and physical treatment of water and agricultural wastes

the use (including genetic manipulation of) microorganisms for the breakdown of specific compounds

reclamation and bioremediation of polluted lands, soil and freshwater pollution from natural and manmade sources

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Traditional ways of thinking about employee and manager skills are being upended by the pace of change. The T-shaped employee is being replaced by Key-Shaped employees and managers...

In 1978 an almost unreported paper published in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Journal, The Engineering Management Review by Denis Johnson a little-known electronics engineer, showed that managers of the day were having to be both specialists and generalists in what he termed as the 'T' shaped manager.

The idea of T-shaped manager

The idea behind the 'T' shaped manager was that they need in-depth knowledge of the industry or craft, whilst at the same time having broad and wide-ranging knowledge, understanding and experience of a range of other topics, such as management, human resources, business etc.

As can be seen from figure 1 above, the classic 'T' shape describes the mix of knowledge, skills and competencies that most managers in organisations require. The horizontal bar describes the boundary-crossing competencies and the vertical bar describes the individual's depth of knowledge within their particular skill or specialist area.

So, for example, an engineer may be promoted to become a manager and needs to understand both the engineering discipline within which they have developed over the years and also now a set of more generic skills and knowledge to enable them to operate as an effective manager within an organisation.

Since 1978 the concept has caught on and matured over the years, with significant amounts of research looking at it particularly, but not exclusively, in the United States and primarily in more technical industries, such as engineering, electronics and, more recently, IT industries.

T-shaped employee

A recent review of the research found that the classic 'T' shaped manager had morphed into the 'T' shaped employee, particularly in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash. Since 2008, the study found that organisations have generally increased their interest in employees, not just managers, becoming more entrepreneurial in their thinking, and are striving to develop more entrepreneurial cultures across their organisations.

Alongside this review, a small but growing series of other papers have started to question whether the classic 'T' shape needs redefining. In particular, studies in 2015, 2018 and 2019 are showing that the current and projected requirements for managers and employees is starting to shift towards a 'key' shape.

More than one deep skill & knowledge set

This means that individuals, particularly managers, need to have the horizontal broad boundary-crossing knowledge and skills described by the classic 'T' shape, but organisations are now requiring more than just one set of deeper areas of skills and knowledge.

In particular, the studies show that managers and many employees must work outside of their discipline or area of expertise. This means that just having one area of expertise and in-depth knowledge is no longer enough, particularly in situations where there is high levels of change (usually technology or market-based change). Besides their own area of discipline or expertise, modern managers must have other areas of specialisms as well.

Emergence of key-shaped people

The mixture of these deeper vertical areas frequently depends on the organisation and its context; however, it is being found that individuals with transdisciplinary knowledge and skills have a significant advantage for problem-solving, innovation and general creativity. Indeed, one pattern appearing in the research is that transdisciplinary project teams are increasingly becoming the norm within organisations and research institutions. Current research is showing that transdisciplinary teams have a significant advantage when tackling 'wicked problems'. Further, managing and being a member of a transdisciplinary team also requires transdisciplinary managers and team members for effective performance.

Several studies show that the combination of 'teeth' on the key shape across the team can leverage significant advantages.

Transdisciplinary team management

It is becoming recognised that transdisciplinary team formation and management is itself a wicked problem, requiring considerably distinct sets of skills and knowledge (key-shaped) than the classic management profile.

Three fundamental characteristics of wicked problems

The issue with wicked problems is that they are dynamic and have:

1. No definitive definition.

2. No stopping rule or clear understanding of when the problem is finally solved.

3. Every solution is a one-shot or one chance operation, each of which has consequences from which there is no going back. Therefore, there is no opportunity for trial and error testing.

One of the 'teeth' of the key where managers need deeper levels of knowledge and understanding (and experience), is of problem-solving using teams and often the depth of knowledge, understanding, analysis and skills to deal with uncertainty and wicked problems

Conclusion

Whilst this level of research is in its infancy and is emergent, the trend is certainly towards multi-skilled and multi-knowledge, or key-shaped, professionals.

Clearly, this emerging paradigm has significant implications for operational management, organisational structures, management development, organisational development and design, human resources and human resource management.

References

Johnston, D. L. (1978). Scientists become managers-the'T'-shaped man. IEEE Engineering Management Review, 6(3), 67-68. Demirkan, H. & Spohrer, J. (2015). T-shaped innovators: Identifying the right talent to support service innovation. Research-Technology Management, 12-15.

Neeley, K. A., & Steffensen, B. (2018). The T-Shaped Engineer as an Ideal in Technology Entrepreneurship: Its Ori-gins, History, and Significance for Engineering Education. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Bridgestock, R. (2015). KEY-shaped people, not T-shaped people - disciplinary agility and 21st century work. Retrieved from http://www.futurecapable.com/?p=102

Korte, W. B., Hüsing, T., & Dashja, E. (2018). T-shaped Professionals in Europe Today and in 2020. T-Shaped Professionals: Adaptive Innovators.

Hart, J. L. (2019). Interdisciplinary project-based learning as a means of developing employability skills in undergraduate science degree programs. Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 10(2), 50-66.

Norris, P. E., O'Rourke, M., Mayer, A. S., & Halvorsen, K. E. (2016). Managing the wicked problem of transdisciplinary team formation in socio-ecological systems. Landscape and Urban Planning, 154, 115-122.

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New research: The shift between T-Shaped & Key-shaped employees

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Traditional ways of thinking about employee and manager skills are being upended by the pace of change. The T-shaped employee is being replaced by Key-Shaped employees and managers...

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Could we look at resources that are worth broadening beyond one discipline?

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Could we look at resources that are worth broadening beyond one discipline?

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Health Team made a Study Design Guide a while back with the help of Bec Muir. and it might not be a huge effort to make it work for ALL disciplines, just by including scenarios and examples from say education or health or business.

This would be minimal effort for a maximal outreach. we can always later iteratively look at ways it can be improved and deepened.

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Dealing with responsibilities from the previous role

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Dealing with responsibilities from the previous role

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It is hard to "check out" of some the responsibilities we had in our previous role such as collections because other teams, like us are also finding their footing and transitioning... and this impacts on own transition too - Sharon

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Leaning into learning design and project management for library learning projects

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Leaning into learning design and project management for library learning projects

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Will we lose opportunities for serendipitous application of our expertise?

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Will we lose opportunities for serendipitous application of our expertise?

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I'm worried that labelling certain things as "low value" will mean that we lose serendipitous opportunities to apply our expertise that actually have a high impact, and that may not arise if we weren't providing (possibly) "low value" support.

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Visual or alternate advanced searching - extending our expertise

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Visual or alternate advanced searching - extending our expertise

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Managing current expectations of staff and students

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Managing current expectations of staff and students

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While we are learning and evolving into new methods of how we support staff and students we at the same time will be operating to fulfill their current expectations of our service. This could be a gradual transition or one where we set a clear starting from now approach. But clear consistent communication about what to expect from our newly developed service will be an important challenge to tackle.

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I like the idea of a whole of course approach - we all do amazing things in this space but needs to be better consolidated/co-ordinated so that we're not reinventing the wheel each time we're asked to produce something (for inclusion in a unit site for example). A 'master' suite of DL modules that all students of all disciplines can do (with some tailoring for specific disciplines).

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Building the teams own behaviour and skills around digital literacy

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Building the teams own behaviour and skills around digital literacy

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Scholarly Services is bring together library staff from across different faculties and departments. All of which had different ways of doing things. I think time will need to be spent as we progress looking at the habits we have around our own digital literacy, and how it can adapt to work in this new environment.

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Reflective practice - guide to help thinking

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Reflective practice - guide to help thinking

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Reflective Practice - scaffolded aspects - BEDEY

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Check out this Organizational Chart designed by Kat CoffeeLibrarian.

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It is essential for us to know what role we play in regard to bibliometrics. Are we going to promote this service to our researchers? Are we going to receive requests directly? How our kind of work is different from what research librarians do? At the moment it feels like we are only expected to do metrics report when research librarians are busy, we don't even have access to requests.

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Connecting Scholarly Services work to the Library Plan

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Connecting Scholarly Services work to the Library Plan

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I am eager to see the connections Frank makes between the Library Plan and the work we do, and what that means for the projects and tasks we take on in 2023 and beyond.

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I hope that time will be allocated to allow us to undertake quality training (half day/full day/multi-day) in learning new skills to help develop our expertise in a range of areas (e.g. metrics, OER development etc.)

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Change is stressful - reflection times can help

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Change is stressful - reflection times can help

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It is stressful going through this change. I've found it really helpful when there can be moments where people can express and voice how they're feeling. But we can also take the time to acknowledge the good work that everyone is doing within that change.

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As mentioned, it's been a challenging time, so it's important to reinforce the notion of support during this transition time. Thank you for acknowledging that today.

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I think that there is potential for more opportunities for us to deliver content to faculties and stakeholders in a more consistent and uniformed approach. With Scholarly Services bringing their expertise together in order to review and reshape Library content.

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What has to be in-person and what can be asynchronous?

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What has to be in-person and what can be asynchronous?

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Especially with TEACHING systematic search some things you have to be there for, others we may find a way to communicate them effectively online... but easier said than done!

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Professional divisions share a lot of common experiences, values and goals as the library. Perhaps we could be looking broadly at how we can add value to projects that are aligned to our strategies.

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Learning about each other's expertise is exciting.

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Learning about each other's expertise is exciting.

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I am really encouraged by the idea of learning more about the wonderful people we work with, what skills and knowledge they possess, and how they can be applied in the work I do.

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If we value ourselves, but sell that more as a consultation, sometimes that can be less confrontational to expert academics.

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I have found myself very challenged by some of the new ideas colleagues have had. But I want to reinforce that does not diminish my respect and friendship for you all. I'm hoping it will get quieter so that we can spend more time talking personally about ideas,  as this often makes it easier to navigate them.

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We should ensure regular communication to our community (academics, students etc) occurs whenever we make changes to any type of service - no matter how small - as I think there is expectation that it's business as usual as far as they're concerned.

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'The old ways' are so familiar, will it be difficult to keep pushing ourselves to question them, to consider discarding them as no longer helpful for where we are going?

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I think that some of our backgrounds of subject expertise will help us to be strategic, as that history and knowledge of courses and schools/faculties is a starting point to mapping out what could be strategic in the future.

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in redefining ourselves as experts not helpers, we will come across conflicts with some staff and students as they adjust. there may even be a gap where the student needs to find other help - eg tutors (As Blair and i experienced this week) in order to fulfil that gap.