Libraries Within Their Institutions - Hardback

Discover how your libraryand its patronscan benefit from internal partnerships, collaborations, and interaction
Libraries Within Their Institutions: Creative Collaborations examines the ways librarians work within their own universities, municipalities, or government units to form partnerships that ensure the best possible service to their patrons. An excellent companion and complement to Libraries Beyond Their Institutions: Partnerships That Work (Haworth) from the same editors, this unique professional resource looks at the associations between libraries and faculty members, city governments, information technology departments, and research institutes. The book provides first-hand perspectives, assessments, and case studies from information professionals at several major universities, including Kent State, the University of Washington, Virginia Tech, and Purdue University
Libraries Within Their Institutions: Creative Collaborations demonstrates the need for interaction and cooperation between libraries and non-library organizationson campus and off. This unique book examines the elements of effective collaborations for libraries, including partnerships with campus teaching centers; helping faculty design their courses to enhance instruction; long-term perspectives in library-faculty cooperation; the creation of collaboratories, collaborative facilities based in libraries; and the development of campus-wide fluency in all areas of information technology and literacy
Libraries Within Their Institutions: Creative Collaborations provides practical information on campus-wide committees that promote a general education information literacy requiremen integrating ACRL core competencies for information literacy into course content using an Assessment Cycle to document the library’s contributions toward students’ success and institutional outcome partnerships that have shaped the ARL Statistics and Measurement Progra using information commons, and teaching and learning centers to develop collaborative service digital preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETD team-taught courses in scientific writin joint-use librarie collaboration in collection managemen drawing teaching faculty into collaborative relationship collaborating with teaching faculty to help students learn lifelong research skillsLibraries Within Their Institutions: Creative Collaborations is an invaluable resource for librarians working in academic, school, special, and public settings, and for library science faculty and students.