Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries (eBook, ePUB)

Building Community through Collaboration
Redaktion: Keeran, Peggy; Forbes, Carrie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Successful Campus Outreach for Academic Libraries: Building Community Through Collaboration , Peggy Keeran and Carrie Forbes bring together a variety of ways academic libraries are engaging with their communities through outreach, with creativity and the spirit of collaboration as major themes throughout. As a compendium of best practices, it serves as a resource for academic librarians to discover new programming ideas, to learn principles of effective marketing, and to help them think strategically and programmatically about outreach activities of all types. Topics are presented in four sections: Strategic Vision and PlanningDeveloping and Implementing Successful ProgramsCommunity Outreach: The Academic Library in the CommunityBroadening Library Outreach Audiences Practitioners designing outreach programs and activities will benefit from learning about a diverse set of outreach practices from libraries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538113721
• Artikelnr.: 53494723

Autorenporträt

Peggy Keeran (MLIS, MA), is a Professor and the Arts and Humanities Librarian at the University of Denver Libraries, and coordinator of the faculty advisory group to the library. She is the co-editor of the Rowman & Littlefield series Literary Research: Strategies and Sources, and has co-authored three of the volumes in the series. She has also co-edited both editions of Research within the Disciplines: Foundations for Reference and Library Instruction and co-authored "Expanding Support for Graduate Students: Library Workshops on Research Funding Opportunities." Most recently her research interests include collaborations on instruction between Reference and Special Collections, and with her colleagues she co-authored "'If You Want the History of a White Man, You Go to the Library:' Critiquing Our Legacy, Addressing Our Library Collections Gaps." Carrie Forbes (MLS, MA), Associate Professor and Associate Dean, oversees the University of Denver Libraries' public services including research support, instruction, outreach/programming, and borrowing and lending services. She co-edited, along with Jennifer Bowers, Rethinking Reference for Academic Libraries: Innovative Developments and Future published by Roman & Littlefield in 2014. Other recent publications include a co-authored chapter in Academic Librarianship Today on reference and instruction models and a co-written article in College & Research Libraries on "Expanding Support for Graduate Students: Library Workshops on Research Funding Opportunities." Her other research interests include critical information literacy, library assessment, and co-teaching partnerships between librarians and faculty.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction - Elia Trucks
Part I: Strategic Vision and Planning
Chapter 1: Plan, Prioritize, and Partner: A Model to Create Successful
Outreach Programs and Events -Rosan Mitola
Chapter 2: What Else Do Librarians Know? Reconceptualizing Outreach to
Partner with Teaching Faculty and Connect with Students - Rochelle Smith
Chapter 3: Teaching to Learn and Learning to Teach: Using Theoretical
Models to Plan Outreach to Student Peer-Mentoring Programs - Courtney
Lundrigan
Part II: From Start to Finish: Developing and Implementing Successful
Programs
Chapter 4: Building Boot Camp Success: Graduate Dissertation and Thesis
Programs at the University of Notre Dame - Mandy L. Havert
Chapter 5:Money Smarts: Collaborating for Financial Literacy - Esther Gil
Chapter 6: Library Outreach and Campus Communication Using a Digital
Signage Platform: The DIVo Project - Toong Tjiek Liauw (Aditya Nugraha)
Part III: Community Outreach: The Academic Library in the Community
Chapter 7: Academic Libraries and STEM Outreach Programs: Connecting the
Library and the Community - Naomi Bishop
Chapter 8: Academic Library Exhibits and Programs: Outreach through Campus
and Community Partnerships - Manju Prasad-Rao
Chapter 9: Regis University and Arrupe Jesuit High School: Information
Literacy Outreach to Help Students Succeed in High School and College -
Paul Mascareñas and Janet Lee
Part IV: Broadening Library Outreach Audiences
Chapter 10: "Books are not Enough:" Engaging with Polytechnic Students -
Sabrina Wong
Chapter 11: Student Library Advisory Boards: Engaging Students in the
Library Experience and Communicating the Library's Value - Rebecca Barham,
Seti Keshmiripour, Lilly Ramin, and Mary Ann Venner
Chapter 12: Supporting Graduate Education: Leveraging Library Workshops and
Campus Partnerships - Deborah Lee