Research Allies  Two New Academic Librarians’ Perspectives

on Outreach to Faculty Suzanne van den Hoogen & Lise Brin

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Outline

Expectationso Graduate School and Beyond

Experienceso Personal & Professional

Outreach Effortso Challenges & Opportunities

Group Activityo Tell Us What You Think

Where Do We Go from Here?o Dismantling Past Perceptions

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Expectations

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Experiences

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Outreach Efforts

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LibraryThing

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Reference To Go

Outreach Efforts

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E-Reader Petting Zoo

Librarian Trading Cards

Group Activity

Tell us what you think!

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Quote # 1

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Quote # 2

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“bibliographic instruction is a cover-up for the fact the library systems are too difficult to use, and that librarians should be concentrating on making access easier, thus doing away with the need for instruction entirely.”

(Herrington, V. 1998, discussed in Leckie, G., Fullerton, A. 1999)

“bibliographic instruction is a cover-up for the fact the library systems are too difficult to use, and that librarians should be concentrating on making access easier, thus doing away with the need for instruction entirely.”

(Herrington, V. 1998, discussed in Leckie, G., Fullerton, A. 1999)

Quote # 3a

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“bibliographic instruction is a waste of time, ineffective, unproven, and costly. He [Tom Eadie] suggested that academic librarians would be far better off putting their energies and budgets into enhanced reference services.”

(Leckie, G., Fullerton, A., 1999)

“bibliographic instruction is a waste of time, ineffective, unproven, and costly. He [Tom Eadie] suggested that academic librarians would be far better off putting their energies and budgets into enhanced reference services.”

(Leckie, G., Fullerton, A., 1999)

Quote #3b

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Quote # 4

Where Do We Go from Here?

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Thank You

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References

Anthony, K. (2010). Reconnecting the disconnects: Library outreach to faculty as addressed in the literature. College & Undergraduate Libraries, 17, 79-92. DOI: 10.1080/10691310903584817

Burns, V., Harper, K. (2007) "Asking students about their research", Studying Students: the Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester.

Christiansen, L., Stombler, M., & Thaxton, L. (2004). A report on librarian-faculty relations from a sociological perspective. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 30(2), 116-121. doi:DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2004.01.003

Chu, F. T. (1997). Librarian-faculty relations in collection development. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 23(1), 15-20.

Ducas, A. M., & Michaud-Oystryk, N. (2003). Toward a new enterprise: Capitalizing on the Faculty–Librarian partnership. College & Research Libraries, 64(1), 55.

Farber, E. (1999). Faculty-librarian cooperation: A personal retrospective. Reference Services Review, 27(3), 229-234.

Head, A. J. & Eisenberg, M. B. (2010). Truth be told: How college students evaluate and use information in the digital age. Project Information Literacy Progress Report, University of Washington’s Information School. Retrieved from http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2010_Survey_FullReport1.pdf

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References

Head, A. J., & Eisenberg, M. B. (2009). Lessons learned: How college students seek information in the digital age. Project Information Literacy Progress Report, University of Washington’s Information School. Retrieved from http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2009_Year1Report_12_2009.pdf

Herrington, V.J. (1998). Way beyond BI: A look to the future. The Journal of Academic Leadership, 24(5), 381-386.

Jenkins, P. O. (2005). Faculty-librarian relationships. Oxford: Chandos.

Julien, H., & Given, L. M. (2003). Faculty-librarian relationships in the information literacy context: A content analysis of librarians' expressed attitudes and experiences. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 27(3), 65-88.

Kotter, W. R. (1999). Bridging the great divide: Improving relations between librarians and classroom faculty. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 25(4), 294-303.

Leckie, G. & Fullerton, A. (1999). The roles of academic librarians in fostering a pedagogy for information literacy. ACRL Ninth National Conference, 191-201.

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Questions

• How do you get faculty to involve you with their departments?

• What have your experiences been with faculty?

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