Full Description
This handbook lays out the comprehensive fundamentals of the discipline to help academic liaison librarians build the confidence and cooperation of the university faculty in relation to the library.
Readers will learn about connecting and assisting faculty and students through skillful communication and resource utilization with coverage of key topics including:
orientation meetings
acquiring subject specialization
advice on faculty communication and assistance
online tutorial creation
collection development
information literacy instruction
embedded librarianship
library guides
new courses and accreditation
evaluation methods.
Readership: Written in a straightforward way that lends itself to easy application, Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison will be essential reading for current and future academic library liaisons and students of library and information science.
Contents
1. Faculty/staff orientation meetings 2. Subject expertise 3. Communication with faculty 4. Online tutorials 5. Faculty assistance 6. Collection development 7. Teaching Information literacy 8. Embedded librarianship 9. Library guides 10. Accreditation and new courses 11. Evaluation
