Module 2: Your University of Kentucky Libraries
Your University of Kentucky Libraries
Topic 3 – Equity and Library Access
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Over the course of your doctoral degree and the process of writing your PhD dissertation, you may feel at different times or simultaneously both awed and impressed by the number of research resources available to you at a university library, or frustrated when you struggle or fail to easily access something you believe would help you.
Some of the frustration, and awe, comes down to the economic resources that universities and libraries are able to pay companies and publishers for access. As you consider your University of Kentucky Libraries system here in Lexington, and the Little Fine Arts & Design Library that serves your department; as you spend time carefully setting up your account access to the resources we offer, take a moment to consider why we ask researchers to do so in these ways:
Alan Bilansky’s article on research and library databases, the longest and most academic reading assigned in this micro course, delves into these questions. To close out this section on YOUR local library for your PhD, our last activity invites you to enter into a beginning conversation with your fellow cohort. What big-picture questions or comments on library access, subscription, equity, and value did the Bilansky reading raise for you?
