Public Engagement
The NC State University Libraries provides a variety of services to support your community-engaged research and teaching and to help you share your work with the public. If you're interested in partnering with us, contact our Lead Librarian for Public Science, Karen Ciccone.
Sharing Your Work
You can increase the impact of your work by sharing it with various publics. Our scholarly sharing guide provides an overview of how to get started sharing your research output, including how to choose a sharing platform or repository, providing clarity of reuse for others through licenses, and opportunities for sharing research ideas in non-traditional formats.
Through our exhibits, programs, and event series, the Libraries offers platforms to share your work in experiential, vibrant ways with large and diverse audiences, including members of the Raleigh community and beyond. Our staff brings expertise in program planning, audience development, collaboration, visitor relations, and marketing to support public engagement. If you would like to work with the Libraries to develop an event or outreach activity, please contact Marian Fragola.
Addressing Broader Impacts
If you are a researcher applying for NSF funding, and you need to craft a strong broader impacts statement, our broader impacts guide can help. We can connect you with campus partners and programs and offer guidance on the content and composition of the broader impacts section of grant proposals.
Citizen Science
The Libraries supports citizen science and shares its values of openness, access, and community engagement and participation. We lend technology in support of the NC State Citizen Science Campus. We partner on the Citizen Science Incubator and help organize citizen science challenges that engage our campus community in studying our campus and generating new knowledge.
Open Research
One of the most powerful ways to contribute to public engagement is to ensure that your research is openly discoverable, accessible, and understandable online. The Libraries can advise on best practices, common workflows, tools, and processes for making research and scholarship more open and reproducible.
Open Education
Open Education focuses on teaching and learning practices that encourage collaboration, authenticity, and student engagement, using openly licensed, free-to-use materials and approaches. The Libraries can help you find and adapt open resources, develop open pedagogical practices, and increase access for students.
Data & Visualization
A good data visualization can help you communicate your work more effectively. The Libraries can provide support if you are working with data, creating visualizations, using geospatial methodologies, or employing new digital methods and approaches.
Digital Media Production
Interested in showcasing your work through a video or podcast, or exploring the possibilities of immersive experiences using virtual or augmented reality? Video, audio, and VR/AR production spaces, technology, and help are available in the Libraries.
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