It's All Academic - Building faculty relationships using more than just candy
Elevator pitches from breakout sessions
Learning Commons
Complete notes from this session. Highlights include:
- how do we make a nice hangout space into a true learning space?
- metrics
- partner with the university to bring folks into the space
Assessment
- bib instruction survey
- evaluate databases
- evaluate collections
- print vs online?
- budgets are being cut - how are we measuring things to know where to cut?
Info Literacy
- requires institutional support
- one university has a financial literacy center
- distance education is becoming more and more of an issue
- increasing student awareness of digital information
- integrating into assignments, CMS
Electronic Records
- everyone should check out Liz Lyon at the Data Curation Centre
- OA data frameworks
- getting faculty buy-in
New Info Pros
- communicate with faculty
- create a wishlist
- make no promises
- communicate resources
- be positive!
BIG TALK ABOUT FACULTY RELATIONSHIPS
- faculty want candy, but we offer much more
- build relationships with them
- approach new hires - they are keen
- get on faculty committees/senate
- publish quarterly newsletters/blog posts for busy faculty
- visit them in their office regularly
- attend faculty seminars
- make friends with support staff
- use a professor's own research when teaching an IL class
- talk to senior grad students
- use social networking sites
- embed yourself in the CMS
- take profs out for coffee
- market both the library AND the librarian