Improving Graduate Students’ Research Skills: The Graduate Student Research Series at the University of Florida

This chapter describes an effort at the University of Florida to address the needs of graduate students and broaden library offerings to this constituency. First, we outline the development and implementation of this library program, the Graduate Student Research Series, which was created to provide more thorough, holistic research assistance to graduates. We describe the nature and contributions of this program and discuss issues that we encountered as well as the lessons we learned along the way. We conclude by offering some best practice guidelines for libraries interested in pursuing this broader type of approach