A Method for Evaluating Library Liaison Activities in Small Academic Libraries

Miller, Jonathan

doi:10.1080/01930826.2014.953387

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“…In light of the above developments facing liaisons (Bakkalbasi, Rockenbach, Tancheva, & Vine, 2016;Banfield & Petropoulos, 2017;Crawford, 2012;Hayman, 2017;Henry, 2012;Kenney, 2015Kenney, , 2014Logue, 2007;Miller, 2014;Sievers-Hill, 2014;Vine, 2018), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has undertaken several research studies and liaison institutes to develop helpful guideposts for revamping liaison programs. The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) held an ARL ASERL Liaison Institute in April 2018 to engage attendees from ARL and ASERL members in interactive exercises to discuss current issues and identify potential solutions.…”

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Dangerous Liaisons: Brainstorming the 21st-Century Academic Liaison

Mays¹

2019

O, Wind, if Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far Behind?

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Dangerous Liaisons: Brainstorming the 21st-Century Academic Liaison

Mays¹

2019

O, Wind, if Winter Comes, Can Spring Be Far Behind?

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“…Surveys as research tools have been used in LIS research to investigate perceptions and views of librarians on subjects such as information literacy (Kim and Shumaker 2015), employability (Pradhan, 2015), primary research skills (Kennedy and Broncolini, 2012 knowledge management (Aharony, 2011), liaison activities (Miller, 2014), the integration of discovery tools into library services (Boyer and Besaw, 2012; Fawley and Krysak, 2014), librarians’ instructional role (Julien and Genuis, 2011; Shank and Dewald, 2011) and librarians’ emotional response to change (Houston and Paganelli, 2015). In the study of LIS skills and competencies, surveys have been utilized to identify needed sets of skills:…”

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Developing scales for identifying and classifying library and information science skills and competencies: An Israeli perspective

Bronstein

Nebenzahl

2018

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The purpose of this study is to present the development of a skills and competencies scale for LIS professionals. Scales for the identification and classification of the skills and competencies needed to work in the library and information science profession can contribute to the development of academic and professional programs. This empirical survey was conducted in Israel among members of two library and information science listservs. The final sample included 183 valid questionnaires. The study tested the viability of a typology comprised of 46 skills and competencies as items in multi-items scales. Factor analysis and Cronbach’s Alpha were utilized in performing the analysis that resulted in four clusters: technology skills, information skills, personal competencies and traditional librarianship skills and show that 25 out of 46 original skills contribute to the explanation of 44% of the total variance. The study contributes to the literature on the subject by proposing updated scales that examine practitioners’ views and opinions of which skills and competencies they needed in information work. The typology that resulted from the study ascertains that, regardless of the rapid changes that the profession has confronted in the last decades, the skills that have been at the core of the profession are still relevant alongside technological skills related to online environments such as website development and management.

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“…11 In a recent article, Jonathan Miller of Rollins College describes a method for self-reflective assessment of library liaison activities in small academic libraries. 12 It is anticipated that new assessment measures and methodologies will result from ARL's strategic design and visioning effort currently underway. 13 In addition, there are many customer relationship management (CRM) tools used in other contexts that might well be adapted for library use, such as Sales Force, that are designed to increase "customer loyalty" by bringing together information from a range of data sources that relates to users, their preferences, practices, and needs.…”

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From Engaging Liaison Librarians to Engaging Communities

Kenney

2015

CRL

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It would be interesting to revisit UMN Libraries in three years and see how they are doing," wrote Kara J. Malenfant in her 2010 article "Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A Case Study of Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty." 1 Malenfant had documented a culture shift underway at the University of Minnesota (UMN) Libraries that focused liaison work outward toward campus engagement. In preparing this companion essay, I interviewed University Librarian Wendy Lougee, who affirmed that the forces at work then had ripened and matured at UMN. She noted that the shift described in the article had been underway for some time, so the expansion to scholarly communication was a natural extension of efforts to embrace a full spectrum of services from creation to curation. The library had earlier brought in R2 consulting to streamline workflows associated with the full spectrum of "selection to access" for monographs, moved aggressively to reconceive technical services, shifting greater investment to shelf-ready approval plans, devoted resources to developing a campus repository, and in general had embraced the concept of the diffuse library. 2 These process improvements freed up capacity within existing staff to pursue other work. Within this context, the University of Minnesota became an early leader in the liaison movement, and Associate University Librarian for Academic Programs Karen Williams articulated a forceful sea change from a collections-centric to an engagement-centered model for librarianship. In the process, the campus came to view the library as a critical component in the scholarly communications infrastructure. The leadership and change process at UMN provided a strong exemplar for others to follow. Probably its most significant impact has been to influence the adoption of liaison functions at other academic libraries. At both ALA meetings in 2014, for example, approximately fifty coordinators of liaison programs from thirty-five academic research libraries met under the auspices of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to discuss ways to improve the liaison model. 3 Similar gatherings and presentations on liaison activities have become a normal part of library conferences today. Given the fairly widespread take-up of the liaison model, what are some of the challenges that have arisen since Malenfant's 2010 article? This essay focuses on six key issues that will affect the model moving forward.

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A Method for Evaluating Library Liaison Activities in Small Academic Libraries

Cited by 12 publications

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Dangerous Liaisons: Brainstorming the 21st-Century Academic Liaison

Dangerous Liaisons: Brainstorming the 21st-Century Academic Liaison

Developing scales for identifying and classifying library and information science skills and competencies: An Israeli perspective

From Engaging Liaison Librarians to Engaging Communities

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