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Building a Community of Practice for Instruction Librarians: Programmatic Elements and Strategies for Implementation
(Elsevier, 2024) Sahn, Sarah F.; Riesen, Karleigh
A community of practice for instruction librarians is essential to ongoing development of pedagogical knowledge, fostering community, and cultivating meaningful teaching practices. This article describes the development of a community of practice for new and experienced instruction librarians to help them grow in their teaching practice. Elements explored throughout this article include collaborative peer mentorship, developing a reflective practice, and support for the coordinator of instruction leading these efforts. A replicable model for effective implementation at other institutions is detailed throughout the article.
Creating Short Form Content for Academic Libraries: A Workflow
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024) Bates, Margaret
Purpose: This article describes a workflow designed for liaison librarians at an academic library creating short form video content to increase student engagement with the library and improve student awareness of library resources and services. Design: This article outlines a framework for creating short form content video tutorials, including how to identify information that should be included, and what should be left out. The workflow also introduces different tools librarians can use to create and edit video content, as well as recommendations on how to make videos more accessible to students. Findings: Research shows that shorter videos have higher learner engagement and that students retain information best when it is presented in short, frequent chunks rather than traditional lecture-style formats (Mendez-Carbajo and Wolla, 2019). Value: Video tutorials are a staple of most academic libraries’ collections of digital learning objects. However, this new generation of learners will benefit from a different approach to creating library videos using short form content.
Embedded Librarianship: What’s it Worth?
(Libraries Unlimited, 2013-09-23) Russo, Michael F.; Daugherty, Alice L.
In the ongoing evolution of the academic library, embedded librarianship has become an important topic of debate across levels and departments. This book delves into the concept, examining everything from theory to best practices. Is the embedded librarian an equal partner in the course, or is the librarian perceived as a "value-added" extra? What is the place of technology in this effort? Is there a line librarians should not cross? Taking into account both theory and practice to discuss multiple facets of the subject, Embedded Librarianship: What Every Academic Librarian Should Know thoroughly examines these questions and more from the perspectives of experienced embedded librarian contributors who have worked in higher education settings. The chapters illuminate the benefits and challenges of embedding, explain the planning required to set up an embedded course, identify the different forms of embedding, and consider information literacy instruction in various contexts. Readers who will benefit from this work include not only academic librarians but any professor who wants their students to be able to do better research in their fields.
Engaging Students in Academic Library Design: Emergent Practices in Co-Design
(2020) Decker, Emy Nelson
This article explores academic libraries that have gone beyond using the traditional survey or focus group methods of solicitingstudent input, specific to library design projects. The goal for each library was to engage students in space design projects ininnovative and hands-on ways that would maximise the potential for gaining their design input towards the creation of improvedand enhanced library spaces. The successful co-design practices are further contextualised by analysing the strategies employedby several academic libraries for engaging students in library design or redesign projects. Key trends, approaches, and emergentpractices come into focus as they pertain to student input opportunities. By studying examples of student co-design in academiclibrary design projects, several themes emerge as ingredients for reaching – and keeping – users engaged with library design.Importantly, students must feel that their commentary is valued and that their input is evident in the final design.
Fighting an Uphill Battle: Troubleshooting Assessment Practices in Academic Libraries
(2021) Lowry, Lindsey; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
Scholarly literature provides many examples of librarians who have assessed troubleshooting data in various capacities and demonstrated the benefits that can be gleaned from such an analysis. Though some studies have confirmed that troubleshooting data is often being tracked, the frequency with which that data is being assessed in libraries is not well established. For this study, the author surveyed academic librarians who are currently involved in e-collection management to determine to what extent and for what purposes troubleshooting assessments are being carried out. The results reveal that though many librarians can see the benefits of assessing troubleshooting data, the obstacles to gathering, analyzing, and acting on results are often too great to overcome.
Onboarding for Liaison Librarians: Building Community and Practice
(Emerald, 2024) Riesen, Karleigh
This article describes an onboarding program created for liaison librarians at an academic library and details a replicable framework for effective implementation at other institutions. This article outlines a month-long onboarding program that provides new-to-the-field and experienced librarians with support and structure as they learn the core competencies of liaison work, adjust to a new professional setting and grow in their practice as liaison librarians. Information about onboarding practices across academic libraries, liaison librarianship within the library and information science (LIS) curriculum and the need for onboarding programs that provide a comprehensive overview of core liaison librarianship competencies is provided. Onboarding programs specific to liaison librarians is an underexplored topic. This article emphasizes fostering community and skill development throughout the onboarding process to bolster confidence, engagement and retention.
The Bottom Line: DDA, E-Textbooks, and Student Savings at LSU Libraries
(American Library Association, 2017) Daugherty, Alice L.; Frank, Emily
Collection development has passed through various trend cycles in academic libraries with the demand driven acquisition (DDA) model being one currently experiencing widespread acceptance and adoption. Also known as patron driven acquisition, this acquisition strategy moves the purchasing impetus from being "just-in-case”—a model attempting to anticipate user needs, to a "just-in-time”—a point-of-need model. Librarians face the challenge of developing a collection that supports learning, teaching, and research needs, now and in the future, all with limited funds. DDA plans are intended to help address this challenge by being more responsive to immediate needs than traditional acquisition models. Yet, librarians at Louisiana State University (LSU) Libraries recently ended all DDA plans in an attempt to more adequately meet user needs and support learning, teaching, and research. The focus of collection development shifted to large e-book collections. These met user preferences for titles without restrictions on printing and saving and provided simultaneous access for an unlimited number of users. Given these features, their potential for course use was examined. Through the subsequent process, course adopted titles were identified and promoted as a library-funded alternative to the traditional student-purchased textbooks. This chapter details how the decision to terminate DDA plans and invest in e-book packages resulted in large upfront costs but enabled advantages in key areas of usability and curricular integration. Collecting and promoting high quality course titles has allowed the Libraries to drive e-book usage and engage in impactful collection development.
Translating the Libraries: A Multilingual Information Page for International Students
(2007) McClure, Jennifer; Krishnamurthy, Mangala; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
Try, Try, Try Again: Better Faculty Outreach Through Trial and Error
(Purdue University, 2016) Arthur, Michael A.; McCall, Patti M.; Schulman, Sarah D.
Reaching out to faculty about library resources and services is an ongoing and sometimes mysterious process for vendors and librarians alike—one that, when effective, can contribute a higher ROI and improved collaboration between libraries and publishers. However, it can be a challenge to reach that sweet spot between “effective” and “annoying,” especially in the face of seemingly nonresponsive faculty. A physical and life sciences librarian and former head of collection development and acquisitions from the University of Central Florida (UCF), and a Springer account development specialist, who works closely with academic librarians, weigh in on four different issues about improving outreach and identifying opportunities for outreach and collaboration.

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