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crl-16589	Forbes, Carrie; Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina; Keeran, Peggy	Expanding Support for Graduate Students: Library Workshops on Research Funding Opportunities	2017	17	.pdf	application/pdf	8995	318	40	In a literature review on graduate students and library instruction, Barbara Blummer notes that there have been a large variety of instructional efforts aimed at graduate students including faculty-librarian partnerships, seminars and workshops, and for-credit courses.10 Expanding Support for Graduate Students: 299 Library instruction for graduate students has been shown to increase both skill level and confidence, regardless of the mode of delivery.11 Workshops specifically targeting the unique needs of graduate students increase proficiency and help students feel more effective and efficient in their information seeking.12 Involving a librarian can also help to reduce graduate student attrition and improve degree completion rates.13 Librar- ians can assist graduate students in determining how to begin and proceed through the literature research process, alleviating the associated anxiety many students ex- perience along the way.14 In doing this, librarians establish meaningful relationships with those they serve and become a trusted partner, consequently fulfilling students’ affective needs, such as those tied to successful socialization into a discipline, that are commonly overlooked within the traditional structure of the academy. Promotion and Marketing to Graduate Students In the focus group discussions about improvements to the workshop, a significant trend emerged concerning the need for the library to develop better communication strategies with graduate students.	cache/crl-16589.pdf	txt/crl-16589.txt