Library Research Sprints as a Tool to Engage Faculty and Promote Collaboration

The Social Mission of Academic Libraries in Higher Education

“…also emphasises roles in developing relationships, building communities and demonstrating value to the academy, arguing libraries can use SC accumulated through curriculum support and research assistance to make additional connections via social networking. Other research uses a social/relational capital perspective to examine networks and relationships of individual librarians and gain critical insights into factors affecting performance of key roles in libraries, including engagement/liaison librarianship(Bracke 2016;McBurney et al 2020;Schlak 2016) and management/library leadership(Schlak 2015;Lombard 2018). O'Bryan (2018) uniquely looks at the development and use of political capital by library leaders.…”