Approaches to Liaison Librarianship: Innovations in Organization and Engagement—eEditions PDF e-book
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- Description
- Table of Contents
- About the authors
Liaison librarianship is a well-established system for framing the work and organizational structures of an academic library to effectively meet the needs of faculty and students. But despite its rich history, the precise meaning of liaison librarianship remains somewhat fluid—the size and nature of an academic institution, the library’s financial and human resources, and the diversity and size of local programs are only some of the variables that librarians must take into consideration when evaluating a specific liaison model for their library, how to implement it, and how its success will be assessed.
Approaches to Liaison Librarianship showcases a number of different implementations of the liaison model, across a range of institutions, and describes in detail many of the tailored programs and services that liaison librarians are so well-positioned to provide. In 20 chapters, this thorough book explores:
- the design and establishment of liaison librarian programs;
- refreshing programs periodically to reflect local campus changes and demands for new services and support from faculty and students;
- the challenges of managing liaison programs through these types of changes;
- day-to-day experiences as liaison librarians, from collaborating with teaching faculty on crafting and delivering information literacy instruction to designing online research support tools;
- librarians working to become fully embedded in their liaison departments to establish a closer connection to the workflows and culture of the departments they serve;
- participating in special projects in collaboration with research and teaching faculty that leverage the specialized knowledge and skills of today’s liaison librarians;
- and more.
Throughout, the authors describe the opportunities and challenges faced by liaison librarians and outline how these librarians leverage their specialized skills and knowledge of their users’ needs to satisfy a wide variety of demands. Approaches to Liaison Librarianship offers ideas for creating customized solutions for your local environment and ways to integrate new resources and services into your liaison models.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Robin Canuel and Chad Crichton
Chapter 1. The Establishment and Evolution of a Liaison Librarian Program
Angela D. Hamilton
Chapter 2. Creating and Managing a New Liaison Organizational Model: Strategies for Success
Gary W. White and Yelena Luckert
Chapter 3. Getting on the Change Train: Facilitating a Reframing of the Liaison Model
Jeannie Bail and Marc Bragdon
Chapter 4. Cultivating Liaison Leadership: Pathways to Management
Kerry M. Creelman, Andrea R. Malone, Lisa Martin, and Veronica Arellano Douglas
Chapter 5. A Delicate Balance: Fostering a Collaborative Work Environment in the Life of a Merged Library
Natalie Waters
Chapter 6. Building Bridges Beyond the Library: Outreach Activities for Liaison Librarians
Lisa M. Woznicki
Chapter 7. Move Out and Move In: An Embedded Approach to Liaison Roles
Helen Power and Sharon Munro
Chapter 8. The Embedded Instruction Liaison Librarian: Creating a Workshop Series for Future Professionals
Lindsay McNiff
Chapter 9. Better Together: Collaboratively Designing and Teaching a Problem-Based Public Health Course
Lana Mariko Wood
Chapter 10. Research in the Studio, Artists in the Stacks: Mapping Information Literacy and the Library in a Studio Arts Program
Larissa Garcia and Jessica Labatte
Chapter 11. Telling a Compelling Story: Using the Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy to Teach Students How to Critically Use Original Library Documents
Sandy Hervieux
Chapter 12. The More We Work Together: Supporting Student Research through Librarian-Faculty Collaboration in an Online Graduate Course
Jenny Harris and Catherine Gatewood-Keim
Chapter 13. Extending Our Reach: Collaborating and Creating an E-Learning Resource for Social Science Graduate Students
Christena A. McKillop
Chapter 14. Best of Both Worlds: Transitioning Roles From a Liaison Librarian to an Embedded Librarian by Becoming an Adjunct Instructor
Melissa E. Johnson
Chapter 15. Working With Faculty Development Groups: Building Mutually Beneficial Relationships to Deepen Liaison Librarian-Faculty Collaborations
Theresa McDevitt, Stephanie Taylor-Davis, and Carrie Bishop
Chapter 16. Uncovering Indigenous Knowledge at the Cultural Interface: Liaison-led Initiatives to Decolonize Academic Library Collections
Michael Dudley and April Blackbird
Chapter 17. Speaking Across Silos: Understanding the Commonalities between Subject and Functional Roles
Pamella R. Lach, Amanda Lanthorne, and Laurel Bliss
Chapter 18. Liaison and Scholarly Communication Librarians Collaborating to Support Faculty and Students
Sarah A. Norris, Sandra Avila, and Buenaventura Basco
Chapter 19. Entrepreneurship Unbound: Liaison Librarians Supporting Entrepreneurship in the University Environment
Jordan M. Nielsen
Chapter 20. Beyond the Looking Glass: Applying a Futures Thinking Perspective for Managing Liaison Roles
Cinthya Ippoliti
About the Editors