Promoting Collaboration with Faculty

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Promoting Collaboration with Faculty

• LOEX
• May 11, 2002
• Margaret Fain, Bob Stevens, Peggy Bates
• Coastal Carolina University

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T R U S T
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Create Conversations with Faculty

• Meet faculty one-on-one.
• Present library services at department meetings.
• Offer workshops.
• Participate in discussion groups, brown bag
  lunches.
• Get involved in centers for teaching.
• Create research components for workshops.
• Write articles for journals outside our field.
• Attend cultural, social, athletic events with
  faculty.
• Offer an on-campus information literacy summer
  institute.

Source Young and
Harmony (1999)
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Recognize 3 types of research assignments
Match needs with service
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Reactive Assignments

• Faculty developed.
• No input from librarians.
• No context for assignment.
• Often no library instruction.

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Cooperative Assignments

• Faculty developed.
• Librarians have input.
• Librarians make suggestions, help with revisions.
• Awareness of goals of class/assignment.
• Library instruction session usually occurs.

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Collaborative Assignments

• Faculty/Librarian work together.
• Goals are complementary.
• Assignment directly related to content and
  outcomes of class.
• Library research integral part of class.
• Communication high between faculty, students, and
  librarians.

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• Tact
• Respect
• Understanding
• Support
• Tenacity

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TACT

• Art of diplomacy.
• Method of approach.
• Turns bad assignments into education
  opportunities.
• Betters relationships.

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RESPECT

• Mutually affirming.
• Collegial.
• Reinforces authority.
• Enables true listening to occur.
• Three way faculty, students, and librarians.

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UNDERSTANDING

• Inform faculty of L.I. objectives.
• Establish common ground with faculty.
• Learn faculty expectations.

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SUPPORT

• Needed on all levels.
• Reach out to faculty.
• Be prepared.
• Present solutions.
• Provide the big picture.
• Continually educate.

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TENACITY

• Persistence.
• Take advantage of all opportunities.
• Try every approach imaginable.
• Follow-up.
• Try, try, again
• and again,
• and again . . . .

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• Collaboration starts small.
• Learn from failure and success.
• Success reinforces success.
• Dont be afraid to experiment.

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TRUST
COLLABORATION