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Special collections and liaison librarian partnerships can have a tremendous impact on the work within the library and the university community. Designed to guide the reader through three different themes—collection stewardship; projects, research, and exhibitions; and instruction—Collaborating for Impact: Special Collections and Liaison Librarian Partnerships offers inspiration and case studies detailing how these departments can impact research, teaching, and learning by working collaboratively. With individual expertise and skillsets, librarians and staff are together better equipped to provide researchers with a holistic, well-rounded perspective on the research process and scholarship.
Collaborating for Impact opens with an exploration of current collaboration between liaison and special collections librarians, including a thorough literature review. A proposed framework for acquiring general and special collections that document the history of the academy and remain responsive to campus curricular needs, and a tutorial on object-based pedagogy that can underpin such arrangements, follow. And finally, there are thirteen case studies that provide concrete examples of how to move the needle towards sustainable efforts and away from one-off examples.
If special collections are destined to become the mainstay of the library, many more paths to deeper collaboration can and should be developed. Special collections and liaison librarian partnerships offer a good foundation from which teamwork can take root across administrative, physical, and cultural divides. This book addresses a gap in both special collections and liaison librarian literature, showing how librarians work together across library departments.
This book is also available as an Open Access Edition.
Foreword
Anne R. Kenney
Introduction
Kristen Totleben and Lori Birrell
Part 1. Research Chapters
Chapter 1. Special Collections and Liaison Librarian Partnerships: A Review of the Literature
Sarah M. Horowitz
Chapter 2. Framing Collaboration: Archives, IRs, and General Collections
Amy Cooper Cary, Michelle Sweetser, Scott Mandernack, and Tara Baillargeon
Chapter 3. Object-Based Pedagogy: New Opportunities for Collaboration in the Humanities
Nora Dimmock
Part 2. CASE Studies
Collection Stewardship
Chapter 4. Science Fiction at Georgia Tech: Linking STEM, Humanities, and Archives
Sherri Brown and Jody Thompson
Chapter 5. Artists' Books: A Collaborative Approach to Collection Development
Melanie Emerson
Chapter 6. Collaborative Collection Development and Community Outreach: Responding to Faculty Research
Lynn Eaton and Brian Flota
Projects, Research, and Exhibitions
Chapter 7. Agents of C.H.A.N.G.E.: Breaking Ground in Collaborative Pop Culture Curation
Anna Culbertson and Pamela Jackson
Chapter 8. Meaningful Alliances: Managing a Collaborative Exhibit about World War I
Jill Baron and Morgan Swan
Chapter 9. Collaboration in Translation: Revitalizing and Reconnecting With a Unique Foreign Language Collection
Katie Gibson, Carly Sentieri, and William Modrow
Chapter 10. Better Together: Embedding a Liaison Librarian in a Special Collection
Laurie Scrivener and Jacquelyn Slater Reese
Chapter 11. Expanding Our Reach: Collaborating to Lead a Volunteer Docent Team
Rebekah Bedard
Instruction
Chapter 12. Developing a Primary Source Lab Series: A Collaboration between Special Collections and Subject Collections Librarians
Adam Rosenkranz, Gale Burrow, and Lisa Crane
Chapter 13. From Papyri to Penguin Books: A Collaborative Approach to Teaching the Transmission of Texts through Time
Alison Clemens, Elizabeth Frengel, and Colin McCaffrey
Chapter 14. AIDS Education Posters Translation Project: Special Collections in Language Learning Curriculum
Lori Birrell and Kristen Totleben
Chapter 15. OkstateShakespeare: Bringing Special Collections and Digital Humanities into the Undergraduate Classroom
Andrew Wadoski, David D. Oberhelman, and Sarah Coates
Chapter 16. Closing the Loop: Creating Deliverables That Add Value
Prudence Doherty and Daniel DeSanto
About the Authors