Faculty-Librarian Relationships

Faculty-Librarian Relationships

Author: Paul Jenkins

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2005-05-31

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1780630794

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Faculty-Librarian Relationships illustrates how academic librarians can enjoy a healthy working partnership with the faculty they serve. Though geared towards those new to the profession, the book is aimed at librarians interested in learning more about this often-complex relationship. Helpful strategies are provided for librarians working with faculty in the areas of collection development and information literacy. The book includes a number of interviews conducted with faculty members so librarians have examples of thoughts, concerns and suggestions regarding libraries and librarians. - An examination of the faculty psyche - Strategies for sharing collection development duties with faculty - Strategies for successful information literacy collaboration with faculty


The Dysfunctional Library

The Dysfunctional Library

Author: Jo Henry

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0838916708

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By tackling the dysfunctional library head on, managers as well as library workers who find themselves in a toxic situation will be poised to better meet library goals and move the library forward.


College

College

Author: Ernest L. Boyer

Publisher: New York : Harper & Row

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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A study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching discusses the achievements and problems of American colleges and universities.


Relationship-Rich Education

Relationship-Rich Education

Author: Peter Felten

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1421439379

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A mentor, advisor, or even a friend? Making connections in college makes all the difference. What single factor makes for an excellent college education? As it turns out, it's pretty simple: human relationships. Decades of research demonstrate the transformative potential and the lasting legacies of a relationship-rich college experience. Critics suggest that to build connections with peers, faculty, staff, and other mentors is expensive and only an option at elite institutions where instructors have the luxury of time with students. But in this revelatory book brimming with the voices of students, faculty, and staff from across the country, Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert argue that relationship-rich environments can and should exist for all students at all types of institutions. In Relationship-Rich Education, Felten and Lambert demonstrate that for relationships to be central in undergraduate education, colleges and universities do not require immense resources, privileged students, or specially qualified faculty and staff. All students learn best in an environment characterized by high expectation and high support, and all faculty and staff can learn to teach and work in ways that enable relationship-based education. Emphasizing the centrality of the classroom experience to fostering quality relationships, Felten and Lambert focus on students' influence in shaping the learning environment for their peers, as well as the key difference a single, well-timed conversation can make in a student's life. They also stress that relationship-rich education is particularly important for first-generation college students, who bring significant capacities to college but often face long-standing inequities and barriers to attaining their educational aspirations. Drawing on nearly 400 interviews with students, faculty, and staff at 29 higher education institutions across the country, Relationship-Rich Education provides readers with practical advice on how they can develop and sustain powerful relationship-based learning in their own contexts. Ultimately, the book is an invitation—and a challenge—for faculty, administrators, and student life staff to move relationships from the periphery to the center of undergraduate education.


Embedded Librarians

Embedded Librarians

Author: Cassandra Kvenild

Publisher: Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13:

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Showcases strategies for successfully embedding librarians and library services across higher education. Chapters feature case studies and reports on projects from a wide variety of colleges and universities. --from publisher description.


Approaches to Liaison Librarianship

Approaches to Liaison Librarianship

Author: Robin Canuel

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780838948514

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"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" -- Publisher's description.


Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians

Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians

Author: Linda S Katz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1317955234

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Every librarian who teaches in an academic library setting understands the complexities involved in partnering with teaching faculty. Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians recounts the efforts of librarians and faculty working together in disciplines across the board to create and sustain connections crucial to the success of library instruction. This unique collection of essays examines various types of partnerships between librarians and faculty (networking, coordination, and collaboration) and addresses the big issues involved, including teaching within an academic discipline, the intricacies of assigning grades, faculty perceptions of library instruction, and the changing role of the reference librarian. Education is the main focus of reference service in today's academic libraries and librarians teach a variety of single-session, course-related, course-integrated, or credit-bearing courses in nearly every discipline. Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians reflects the experiences of librarians, teaching faculty, and library directors, whose perspectives range from cynicism to cautious optimism to idealism when it comes to working with teaching faculty. The book includes case studies, surveys, sample questionnaires, statistics, and a toolkit for establishing an effective library liaison program, and examines the teaching and learning environment, course growth and maintenance, and the “professor librarian” model. Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians presents lessons learned from seeking a common ground including: a successful faculty/librarian collaboration for educational psychology and counseling a library research project for freshman engineering students a semester-by-semester look at a collaboratively taught graduate research and writing course a survey that determines how librarians and library directors feel about teaching outside the library an analysis of librarians’ attitudes toward faculty an analysis of attitudes that influence faculty collaboration in library instruction a look at innovative methods of increasing the teaching roles of librarians and much more! The Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSA/CHE) has mandated that information literacy be included as part of a general education requirement. If your faculty wasn't calling for library instruction before the mandate, it probably is now. Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and Teaching Librarians will help librarians establish communication with faculty that provides a solid foundation for coursework in all disciplines.


The Academic Librarian as Blended Professional

The Academic Librarian as Blended Professional

Author: Michael Perini

Publisher: Chandos Publishing

Published: 2016-04-06

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 008101015X

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The Academic Librarian as Blended Professional employs a model that allows for individual and managerial reconceptualization of the librarian's role, also helping to mitigate obstacles to professional development both internal and external to the library. Using traditional and personal narrative, the book extends Whitchurch's blended professional model, designed to consider the merging of academicians' roles across several spheres of professional and academic influence in a higher education setting, to academic librarians. The book is significant due to its use of higher education theory to examine the professional identity of academic librarians and the issues impacting librarian professional development. The work offers a constructive, replicable research design appropriate for the analysis of librarians in other academic settings, providing additional insights into how these professionals might perceive their roles within the larger context of a higher education environment. Following the application of the blended professional model, this book contends that academic librarians have similar roles concerning research, instruction, and service when compared to an institution's tenure-track faculty. The scope of professional productivity and the expectation of the librarians, though, are much less regimented. Consequently, the academic librarians find themselves in a tenuous working space where their blended role is inhibited by real and perceived barriers. - Uses a model from the discipline of higher education in order to better conceptualize and understand the academic librarian's role in the institution - Allows for the analysis and understanding of the librarian's identity and role in a context familiar to those outside of the academic library system - Provides a unique understanding of both the library system and its librarians, explaining the nuances of the greater higher education collective


Action Plan for Outcomes Assessment in Your Library

Action Plan for Outcomes Assessment in Your Library

Author: Peter Hernon

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780838908136

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This book examines the process of assessing if and how well students and library users are learning from the resources the library provides. The book provides data collection tools for measuring both learning and research outcomes that link outcomes to user satisfaction and includes detailed examples from actual outcomes assessment programs.