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sha towers

Organizing the liaison role: a concept map (Judith E. Pasek) - 0 views

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  • Building relationships with STEM faculty and students therefore requires an active outreach approach rather than simply waiting for individuals to contact librarians.
  • meeting faculty informally and face-to-face at departmental functions is a key outreach strategy, and that outreach techniques need to be tailored to fit the local academic community, adapted for departmental variation.
  • Being visible means creating opportunities for communication by being present where your “customers” (i.e., faculty and students) are located
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  • variety of options for initiating interactions with potential customers
  • Being relevant requires currency and an understanding of the subject matter of interest to the customer.
  • keeping current with rapid changes in technology, research directions, curriculum offerings, and scholarly trends
  • For student engagement, it means making an effort to connect to their experiences and interests to add meaning and put learning processes into context.
  • Being useful means matching resources and information to the purpose (e.g., research, coursework) and needs of the customer
  • High-quality service also involves anticipating needs and being proactive in providing services
  • Faculty are pressed for time, so offering services that can save them time can win their respect and support.
  • Timeliness means being responsive and prompt in answering questions and scheduling consultations. It also means providing services at the point of need, timing delivery to when information and services are most needed or effective.
  • The four elements of proactive customer service—visibility, relevance, usefulness, and timeliness—are interrelated and of equal importance in the implementation of liaison services.
  • The liaison concept map is meant to be a starting point for organizing and planning activities that facilitate greater connections with academic faculty and students.
  • Becoming an effective liaison librarian in today’s environment involves moving from a role peripheral to academic research and teaching, to a more integral and integrated presence within departments and programs
  • Faculty satisfaction with library liaisons increases when they have recent and direct communication, they know the name of their assigned liaison librarian, and they receive more types of services.4
  • Engaging faculty and building long-term relationships can be enhanced by shifting focus to showing interest in their research, offering newer research services (e.g., data management and repository support), and identifying opportunities for partnership.
  • While developing relationships with individual faculty members is essential, the process of making initial contacts can be orchestrated at the departmental level.
  • Building awareness of library services is a necessary first step to engagement, as faculty tend not to view librarians as instructors or research consultants
  • Keeping up with trends and adding to the liaison librarian toolkit are essential to remaining relevant and effective
  • sha towers on 15 May 15
     
    concept map for thinking about the various pieces of the liaison librarian role, focusing on visibility, relevance, usefulness, and timeliness. used for conversation with team of librarians to take a higher altitude view of what we're trying to accomplish and then specifically how we go about doing that
Ellen Filgo

Joint Statement on Faculty Status of College and University Librarians | AAUP - 0 views

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shared by Ellen Filgo on 14 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Indeed, all members of the academic community are likely to become increasingly dependent on skilled professional guidance in the acquisition and use of library resources as the forms and numbers of these resources multiply, scholarly materials appear in more languages, bibliographical systems become more complicated, and library technology grows increasingly sophisticated. The librarian who provides such guidance plays a major role in the learning process.
  • Because the scope and character of library resources should be taken into account in such important academic decisions as curricular planning and faculty appointments, librarians should have a voice in the development of the institution’s educational policy.
Jeff Steely

Raising your internal profile as an academic liaison librarian | Research Information N... - 1 views

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  • Jeff Steely on 20 May 10
     
    "In the current financial climate where every penny counts, raising our internal profile has never been more vital. There are people making decisions on what jobs are vital to the institution's goals and they are not necessarily aware of what librarians contribute, making our posts vulnerable to redundancy. It has therefore never been more essential to make non-library colleagues sit up and take notice of the excellent work we do."
Jeff Steely

Association of Research Libraries :: Research Library Issues, no. 265 (August 2009) - S... - 0 views

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clblog liaison librarians

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  • Jeff Steely on 16 Nov 09
     
    Special Issue on Liaison Librarian Roles
Jeff Steely

Academic Commons - 0 views

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education academic learning technology teaching teaching and learning edtech collaboration

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  • Jeff Steely on 21 May 10
     
    "a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals interested in two interlocking questions: how do creative uses of new technology and networked information support the current project of liberal education, and, perhaps more interestingly, how do they force us to re-think what it means to be liberally educated?"
Ellen Filgo

News: What Students Don't Know - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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  • In the absence of an established structure ensuring that students build relationships with librarians throughout their college careers, professors play a critical role in brokering students' relationships with librarians
sha towers

The (Social) Reader's Dilemma: Content + Container = Context - The Ubiquitous Librarian... - 0 views

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  • “Content, not containers!” This has been a library theme for a while now: unbundling the meat from the sandwich. It’s about the text and/or images, not necessary the printed vessel.  As scholarly material migrates to digital platforms, the focus is on the content, not the boundaries of “journals” or “books.”
  • Yesterday I downloaded The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, which is a free PDF. Thanks Microsoft. I’m reading it on my iPad via my Kindle app and everything is fine, right? No! It’s not a Kindle book. It doesn’t allow me take notes, share passages, or sync across devices. Those might not sound like big deals, but they are—or they have become to me. My reading experience is linked to functionality, not just to the content.   So here is this free book, free content, that is essentially useless to me—to the way I want to use it—to the way I work with information. The content is free, but it’s the container I’m willing to pay for. It’s the container that makes the content valuable.
  • Access is no longer enough. I don’t just want to have the content in a digital format. I need it to live and breed and interact with my other content and with the content of my colleagues. It’s the infrastructure and tools around the content that I am willing to pay for. It’s the platform that will continue to grow and make the content more valuable to me over time. This isn’t about preference, but about performance. It’s about creating context.
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  • I want to do stuff with my information, not just read it.
  • Take Facebook—it’s not really about storing your photos, but about commenting, liking, and tagging. It’s the functionality, packaged together with other lifestyle curation tools and processes. It’s about using the container to connect with a community via a very personal context.
Ellen Filgo

FLIP THE MODEL (a pre-print) - The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 2 views

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shared by Ellen Filgo on 28 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Ellen Filgo on 28 Oct 13
     
    ""Academic libraries are encountering a critical inflection point. In our case it isn't a single technology that is disrupting our established system, but a barrage of advancements in publishing, pedagogy, and user preferences. The landscape is shifting around us, and the future of scholarship requires us to develop new skills, design new environments, and deliver new service capacities. In short, we need new operating models.""
Jeff Steely

HighWireEBookSurvey2010.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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ebooks

shared by Jeff Steely on 08 Mar 10 - No Cached
  • Jeff Steely on 08 Mar 10
     
    Interesting results from a survey of librarians on the topic of ebooks
Ellen Filgo

Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age - 0 views

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information literacy students libraries research

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  • Ellen Filgo on 15 Dec 09
     
    A report of findings from 2,318 respondents to a survey carried out among college students on six campuses distributed across the U.S. in the spring of 2009, as part of Project Information Literacy. Respondents, while curious in the beginning stages of research, employed a consistent and predictable research strategy for finding information, whether they were conducting course-related or everyday life research. Almost all of the respondents turned to the same set of tried and true information resources in the initial stages of research, regardless of their information goals. Almost all students used course readings and Google first for course-related research and Google and Wikipedia for everyday life research. Most students used library resources, especially scholarly databases for course-related research and far fewer, in comparison, used library services that required interacting with librarians. The findings suggest that students conceptualize research, especially tasks associated with seeking information, as a competency learned by rote, rather than as an opportunity to learn, develop, or expand upon an information-gathering strategy which leverages the wide range of resources available to them in the digital age.
Jeff Steely

Critical Assets: Academic Libraries, a View from the Administration Building - 5/1/2010... - 0 views

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teaching and learning future of libraries administration

shared by Jeff Steely on 03 May 10 - Cached
  • libraries should support learning that involves collaboration—i.e., getting students to spend time talking to one another in spaces in the library."
  • reinvest in a traditional position, the subject librarian
  • help scholars in the prepublication phase
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  • not particularly concerned about the expense of maintaining libraries. Funding libraries was perceived as the cost of being part of higher education. CAOs were more interested in outcomes—how much were the libraries being used? How central were they to the mission of the institution? In what ways did they enhance the reputation of the college or university?
Jeff Steely

Changes to Liaison / Instruction in the University Library: A Message from the Universi... - 0 views

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future of libraries academic libraries research

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  • Jeff Steely on 31 Aug 11
     
    Some similarities, some differences in what McMaster is doing and possible futures we have discussed.
Jeff Steely

The Battle of the Books-Again | Peer to Peer Review - 11/19/2009 - Library Jo... - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Steely on 20 Nov 09 - Cached
  • It's our job to understand what people need from libraries and what they think they mean before we explain the limits we face and the choices that have to be made. We can't create the library of the future by talking exclusively to other librarians or by watching undergraduates use the library as a comfortable and inspiring place to hang out between classes. We have to understand what libraries mean to people who we may not see in the library all that often.
  • Jeff Steely on 20 Nov 09
     
    Barbara Fister on "power struggle over what a library is-and who gets to decide"
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