Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison
This handbook lays out the comprehensive fundamentals of the discipline to help academic liaison librarians build the confidence and cooperation of the university faculty in relation to the library. Readers will learn about connecting and assisting faculty and students through skillful communication and resource utilization with coverage of key topics including:
- Orientation meetings
- Acquiring subject specialisation
- Advice on faculty communication and assistance
- Online tutorial creation
- Collection development
- Information literacy instruction
- Embedded librarianship
- Library guides
- New courses and accreditation
- Evaluation methods
Readership: Written in a straightforward way that lends itself to easy application, Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison will be essential reading for current and future academic library liaisons and students of library and information science.
This handbook lays out the comprehensive fundamentals of the discipline to help academic liaison librarians build the confidence and cooperation of the university faculty in relation to the library. Readers will learn about connecting and assisting faculty and students through skillful communication and resource utilization with coverage of key topics including:
- Orientation meetings
- Acquiring subject specialisation
- Advice on faculty communication and assistance
- Online tutorial creation
- Collection development
- Information literacy instruction
- Embedded librarianship
- Library guides
- New courses and accreditation
- Evaluation methods
Readership: Written in a straightforward way that lends itself to easy application, Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison will be essential reading for current and future academic library liaisons and students of library and information science.
Description
This handbook lays out the comprehensive fundamentals of the discipline to help academic liaison librarians build the confidence and cooperation of the university faculty in relation to the library. Readers will learn about connecting and assisting faculty and students through skillful communication and resource utilization with coverage of key topics including:
- Orientation meetings
- Acquiring subject specialisation
- Advice on faculty communication and assistance
- Online tutorial creation
- Collection development
- Information literacy instruction
- Embedded librarianship
- Library guides
- New courses and accreditation
- Evaluation methods
Readership: Written in a straightforward way that lends itself to easy application, Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison will be essential reading for current and future academic library liaisons and students of library and information science.
