Two Years in the Making: Library Resources for Transgender Topics

Inspired by Reid Boehm’s presentation “Beyond Pronouns: Caring for Transgender Medical Research Data to Benefit All People,” at the Research Data Access and Preservation Summit (RDAP) in March 2018, four librarians from the University of Minnesota (UMN) set out to create a LibGuide to support resear...

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Main Authors: Wanda Marsolek, Katie Barrick, Sarah Jane Brown, Kristi Bergland, Caitlin Bakker, Shanda Hunt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library 2021-01-01
Series:Journal of eScience Librarianship
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Online Access:https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol10/iss1/2/
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spelling doaj-9e68df2199f04e2280a1640bc7377f472021-01-20T14:43:35ZengUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter LibraryJournal of eScience Librarianship2161-39742021-01-01101e118810.7191/jeslib.2021.1188Two Years in the Making: Library Resources for Transgender TopicsWanda Marsolek0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1771-3969Katie Barrick1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5344-7442Sarah Jane Brown2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7699-4417Kristi Bergland3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6871-0410Caitlin Bakker4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4154-8382Shanda Hunt5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4131-7333University of Minnesota - Twin CitiesUniversity of Minnesota - Twin CitiesUniversity of Minnesota - Twin CitiesUniversity of Minnesota - Twin CitiesUniversity of Minnesota - Twin CitiesUniversity of Minnesota - Twin CitiesInspired by Reid Boehm’s presentation “Beyond Pronouns: Caring for Transgender Medical Research Data to Benefit All People,” at the Research Data Access and Preservation Summit (RDAP) in March 2018, four librarians from the University of Minnesota (UMN) set out to create a LibGuide to support research on transgender topics as a response to Boehm’s identification of insufficient traditional mechanisms for describing, securing, and accessing data on transgender people and topics. This commentary describes the process used to craft the LibGuide, "Library Resources for Transgender Topics," including assembling a team of interested library staff, defining the scope of the project, interacting with stakeholders and community partners, establishing a workflow, and designing an ongoing process to incorporate user feedback.https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/vol10/iss1/2/transgender researchinformation-seekinglibguideresearch dataiterative design
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title_short Two Years in the Making: Library Resources for Transgender Topics
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publisher University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library
series Journal of eScience Librarianship
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publishDate 2021-01-01
description Inspired by Reid Boehm’s presentation “Beyond Pronouns: Caring for Transgender Medical Research Data to Benefit All People,” at the Research Data Access and Preservation Summit (RDAP) in March 2018, four librarians from the University of Minnesota (UMN) set out to create a LibGuide to support research on transgender topics as a response to Boehm’s identification of insufficient traditional mechanisms for describing, securing, and accessing data on transgender people and topics. This commentary describes the process used to craft the LibGuide, "Library Resources for Transgender Topics," including assembling a team of interested library staff, defining the scope of the project, interacting with stakeholders and community partners, establishing a workflow, and designing an ongoing process to incorporate user feedback.
topic transgender research
information-seeking
libguide
research data
iterative design
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