Justin Fuhr Profile: Home

Justin's librarian philosophy is rooted in relational practices and building communities and connections, doing meaningful work by modelling collegial and hard-working practices, a commitment to lifelong learning, and supporting others in the field of librarianship and beyond.

Justin is an Assistant Librarian in the Sciences Division. He is the liaison librarian for Engineering, Mathematics, Physics & Astronomy, and Medical Physics. He graduated with his MLIS from the University of Alberta in 2019. Previously he graduated with his Library & Information Technology diploma in 2013 from Red River College.

His research interests include relational practices and building community in academic libraries, researcher profiles and persistent identifiers at the University of Manitoba, in addition to a new project exploring authorship and contributorship in research.

Since the summer of 2022, he's been a regular contributor to ACRLog, a blog by and for academic librarians. See more: https://acrlog.org/author/jfuhr/

For undergraduate students, I can:

• Discuss your research goals and questions to find relevant resources.
• Help you develop a search strategy to find scholarly journal articles or other resources.
• Choose the best databases for your research.
• Help you to understand citation and reference styles.
• Walk you through using a citation manager.
• Answer any questions about using the library to finish an assignment.
• Set up notifications for staying up-to-date on current research.
• Help you deposit your thesis or dissertation in MSpace, our institutional repository.
• Tell you about our amazing library services.
• Answer any questions you have about any of the library services in the graduate students and faculty list below.

For graduate students and faculty, I can:

• Help you to set up an academic researcher profile (e.g. ORCID, Scopus, Web of Science).
• Answer any questions you have about systematic or scoping reviews.
• Guide you to an appropriate journal to publish in, open access or otherwise.
• Help you to deposit your scholarly work in MSpace, our institutional repository.
• Instruct your class on library services and information literacy, such as searching for and evaluating scientific literature.
• Speak with your students about an assignment.
• Create library content in UMLearn for your class.
• Set up notifications for staying up-to-date on current research.
• Consider book or resource purchase suggestions.
• Help make your academic work open, such as using the Open Science Framework.
• Answer questions about managing your research data.
• Interpret journal author agreements.
• Answer any questions you have about library services.