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Title: Connecting with Faculty


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Connecting with Faculty
  • April 17, 2008 - WAAL Conference

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Presenters
  • Tom LoGuidice
  • loguidit_at_uwplatt.edu
  • Regina Pauly
  • paulyr_at_uwplatt.edu
  • Jennifer Snoek-Brown
  • snoekbrownj_at_uwplatt.edu
  • Kay Young
  • young_at_uwplatt.edu

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Why Connect?
  • Benefits both faculty library/ librarians
  • Technology has changed the way librarians do
    business
  • Rise of information literacy has created an
    environment ripe for collaboration

Cook, 2000
4
Many Mutual Goals
  • Want students to develop greater understanding
    and respect for intellectual property
  • Enhance student literacyespecially information
    literacyand help them become better writers,
    problem solvers critical thinkers, and life-long
    learners
  • Build learning community on campus

Hollander, Herbert DePalma, 2004
5
Definition of Collaboration
  • This definition may contain many things that we
    donot specifically focused just on information
    literacy
  • Includes
  • Going into classrooms
  • Having classes come to the library
  • Meeting one-to-one with faculty, for
    professional/personal needs
  • Creating online modules for use in/outside
    classroom setting

6
Cross-Cultural Experience?
  • Faculty and Librarians operate in different
    spheres and may speak two languageseven when
    both are in English!
  • Intersection can be considered to be place
    where both groups meet within larger context of
    institutions mission

Hutchins, 2005
Faculty
Librarians
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Status
  • Librarians often do not give ourselves enough
    credit for all we do
  • Many of us do not have faculty status
  • We often buy into, or are influenced
    by,societys ideas on what a librarian is

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Status contd
  • Librarians operate under service-oriented model
  • Librarians are generalists with wide
    interdisciplinary knowledge
  • We may have a Masters degree but most do not go
    on for a PhD

9
Faculty Perceptions
  • Faculty voices have not been featured enough so
    our knowledge of and understanding of faculty is
    often by second-hand accounts of their
    behaviorreports are by librarians for
    librarians

McGuinness, 2006
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Thoughts from the Literature
  • Librarians value the search, faculty value the
    answer
  • An institutional culture as well as a
    departmental one
  • Faculty like control in their classroom
  • Prefer to set assignments
  • Discuss research process in their class
  • Explain discipline-specific resources (how many
    library science professors ask librarians to come
    into their classes!)

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Thoughts from the Literature contd
  • Value librarians more for support role, rather
    than teaching role (i.e. collection development,
    reference assistance, finding materials through
    ILL)
  • Dont necessarily see librarians as equals
  • Faculty often talk about the library rather
    than librarians
  • More interested in scholarly resources than the
    librarys instructional program

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Thoughts from the Literature contd
  • Facultyunlike librariansdont see separateness
    due to status, or organizational issues, as a
    problem

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Obstacles
  • Faculty are time-poor, combining
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • Service to college/community
  • Administrative duties
  • Keeping current in their fields
  • Protective of professional autonomy
  • May be only person on campus in area
  • Profession affords this

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Obstacles contd
  • Research often valued over teaching
  • Campus structure does not promote many
    opportunities for team-teaching
  • Some faculty think their students know
    computersand thus research
  • Past negative experiences with librarians

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Study Why Do We Collaborate?
  • Manuel, Beck Molloy 2005 study
  • Why do faculty collaborate with librarians?
  • Best practices
  • Results
  • Faculty focused on course-related goals
  • Faculty felt accountable for librarian
  • Faculty often felt time constraints

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Study contd
  • Faculty used librarian because
  • Students lacked research skills
  • Combat use of the Internet
  • Because students need to develop an evaluative
    response to information

Manuel, Beck Molloy, 2005
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Study contd
  • Faculty felt best results occur when
  • Librarian is enthusiastic
  • Gear teaching specifically to their class rather
    than a generic lesson
  • Offer hands-on approach
  • Librarian is knowledgeable
  • Faculty felt worst results occur when
  • Librarian misdirects students
  • Miscommunication between librarian and course
    goals

Manuel, Beck Molloy, 2005
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Study contd
  • Faculty felt benefits to librarian collaboration
    included
  • Students were more efficient
  • Student produced better results
  • Students felt more confident with their research
    and with librarians

Manuel, Beck Molloy, 2005
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Faculty Opinions at UWP
  • Survey sent to faculty collaborators
  • 24 responses
  • 96 rated working with a librarian a very
    positive experience for me or my students
  • 61 saw the library as a dynamic, interactive
    environment
  • Comments
  • While these librarians might modestly claim they
    are only doing their job, my experience is that
    they have frequently gone well above the standard
    requirements of their jobs

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Faculty Opinions at UWP
  • Comments contd
  • Much as I still revere the library as a physical
    place, a sacred temple of learning central to any
    community I have come to appreciate the vast
    possibilities of interaction and portability
    afforded by advances in library technology and
    the Internet. Our library is admittedly limited
    by its funding, but given those limitations, they
    have certainly striven to provide as much variety
    of servicein the library, across campus, and
    onlineas they can.

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Faculty Opinions at UWP
  • Comments contd
  • I am a critical thinking curious person and
    librarians feed my addiction for knowledge and
    new ideas.
  • The only problem I have had with individuals
    working in the library is that often there are
    not enough librarians.

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Changes in Higher Education
  • As more students are part-time and
    non-traditional, more demands placed on the
    library
  • Distance Education makes the campus and the
    library a world-wide institution
  • As funding is cut, opportunities arise for
    collaboration

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Librarians Faculty A Natural Fit
  • In any of our regular roles and duties, we work
    with faculty
  • Liaison
  • Teaching
  • Reference
  • Community Service
  • Outreach
  • Promotion Marketing

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Personal Examples
  • Liaison
  • Find highly reviewed materials appropriate for
    purchase
  • Library guides
  • Create and maintain Resources by Academic
    Discipline web pages
  • Teaching classes
  • Purchase faculty requests (e.g. puppets, videos,
    tests, kits, etc.)
  • Attend faculty/dept. meetings

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Personal Examples contd
  • Teaching
  • Collaboration beyond intro library sessions
  • Collaborate with Teaching Excellence Center to
    introduce faculty to new online library
    databases/features, work individually with them
    on their research
  • Teach Intro to College Life classes
  • Scavenger hunts for classes, incl. Intro to
    College Life
  • Work with thesis classes

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Personal Examples contd
  • Teaching, contd
  • Taught Computer Applications in Education course
  • Team-taught with Tom, Ethnicity and Gender Equity
    in Education
  • Step in for faculty when absent
  • Co-taught a course with education faculty in
    Wuhan, China
  • Pull materials for classes (specific assignments,
    themes, etc.)
  • Online library modules

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Personal Examples contd
  • Reference
  • Assist students, faculty, provost at Reference
    Desk
  • One-to-one consultations with Psychology students
  • Work on faculty research, now co-presenting in
    Oxford, England
  • Help faculty with personal research projects
  • Research campaign for citation tools
    (RefWorks), teach faculty workshops

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Personal Examples contd
  • Community Service
  • Campus committees (e.g. Faculty Senate, IRB, APC,
    Graduate Council, Higher Learning Commission,
    NCATE technology committee)
  • Serve on Public Library Foundation board, invite
    faculty onto the board
  • Host international students
  • Volunteer for campus events
  • Work with Provost in Delta Kappa Gamma, an
    educational institution

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Personal Examples contd
  • Outreach
  • Promote health materials with government document
    librarian at annual Health Fair
  • Received campus, and system-wide grants to
    sponsor faculty staff book clubs
  • Create and maintain the librarys Plagiarism
    Prevention web page (offers classes as well)
  • Write and edit newsletter (print/online)
  • Socializeattend campus-wide events

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Personal Examples contd
  • Promotion Marketing
  • Write press releases
  • Create, coordinate, and promote library displays
    in cases bulletin boards
  • LibQual survey
  • Promote library librarianship across campus
    whenever possible

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Celebrate Accomplishments
  • Personal success stories on your own campuses
  • Thank You!

32
References Resources
  • Bell, Steven J. and J.D. Shank. Academic
    Librarianship by Design A Blended Librarians
    Guide to the Tools and Techniques. Chicago ALA,
    2007.
  • Briggs, Laura E. and James M. Skidmore. Is
    Librarian-Professor Collaboration Worth the Time
    and Effort? Co-operative Strategies for Improving
    Undergraduate Research Skills. Resource Centre
    for Academic Technology at the University of
    Toronto (PowerPoint). 31 Jan. 2007.
  • Cook, Doug. Creating Connections A Review of
    the Literature. The Collaborative Imperative
    Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the
    Information Universe. Eds. Dick Raspa and Dane
    Ward. Chicago ACRL, 2000. 19-38.
  • Crowley, Bill. Tacit Knowledge, Tacit Ignorance,
    and the Future of Academic Librarianship.
    College and Research Libraries 62.6 (2001)
    565-584. Wilson Web. 4 April 2008.

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References Resources contd
  • Dewey, Barbara I. The Embedded Librarian
    Strategic Campus Collaborations. Resource
    Sharing and Information Networks 17.1-2 (2004)
    5-18.
  • Dewey, Barbara I., ed. Library User Education
    Powerful Learning, Powerful Partnerships. Lanham,
    MD Scarecrow Press, 2001.
  • Feldman, Devin and Susan Sciammarella. Both
    Sides of the Looking Glass Librarian and
    Teaching Faculty Perceptions of Librarianship at
    Six Community Colleges. College Research
    Libraries, 61.6 (2000) 491-498. Wilson Web. 4
    April 2008.
  • Gregory, Gwen Meyer, ed. The Successful Academic
    Librarian Winning Strategies from Library
    Leaders. Medford, NJ Information Today, 2005.

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References Resources contd
  • Hollander, Sharon A. , Barbara R. Herbert and
    Karen Stieglitz DePalma. Faculty-Librarian
    Collaboration. APS Observer 17.3 (2004). 9
    April 2008 lthttp//www.psychologicalscience.org/ob
    server/getArticle.cfm?id1541gt.
  • Holtze, Terri L. 100 Ways to Reach your
    Faculty. 9 April 2008 lthttp//www.ala.org/ala/pio
    /campaign/ academicresearch/reach_faculty.pdfgt.
  • Hrycaj, Paul and Michael Russo. Reflections on
    Surveys of Faculty Attitudes Toward Collaboration
    with Librarians. The Journal of Academic
    Librarianship 33.6 (2007) 692-696. Wilson Web.
    4 April 2008.
  • Hutchins, Elizabeth O. Building Strong
    Collaborative Relationships with Disciplinary
    Faculty. The Successful Academic Librarian
    Winning Strategies from Library Leaders. Ed. Gwen
    Meyer Gregory. Medford, NJ Information Today,
    2005. 13-29.

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References Resources contd
  • Manuel, Kate, Susan E. Beck and Molly Molloy. An
    Ethnographic Study of Attitudes Influencing
    Faculty Collaboration in Library Instruction.
    Relationships Between Teaching Faculty and
    Teaching Librarians. Ed. Susan B. Kraat.
    Binghamton, NY Haworth Press, 2005. 138-161.
  • McGuinness, Claire. What Faculty ThinkExploring
    the Barriers to Information Literacy Development
    in Undergraduate Education. The Journal of
    Academic Librarianship 32.6 (2006) 573-582.
    Wilson Web. 4 April 2008.
  • Moore, Melissa. Reeling Em In How to Draw
    Teaching Faculty into Collaborative
    Relationships. Resource Sharing and Information
    Networks 17.1-2 (2004) 77-83.
  • Raspa, Dick and D. Ward, eds. The Collaborative
    Imperative Librarians and Faculty Working
    Together in the Information Universe. Chicago
    ACRL, 2000.

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References Resources contd
  • Simon, Rose Ann. The Faculty/Librarian
    Partnership. Increasing the Teaching Role of
    Academic Libraries. Ed. Thomas G. Kirk. San
    Francisco Jossey-Bass, 1984. 55-62.
  • Stoffle, Carla J., Alan E. Guskin and Joseph A.
    Boisse. Teaching, Research, and Service The
    Academic Librarys Role. Increasing the Teaching
    Role of Academic Libraries. Ed. Thomas G. Kirk.
    San Francisco Jossey-Bass, 1984. 3-14.
  • Ury, Connie Jo, Joyce A. Meldrem and Carolyn V.
    Johnson. Academic Library Outreach Through
    Faculty Partnerships and Web-Based Research
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    243-256.
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