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New Directions for Academic Liaison Librarians

Alice Crawford, University of St Andrews Library, UK

Chandos Information Professional Series

 - unique in concentrating on the role of the new community of academic liaison librarians
 - recognises the wider possibilities for development open to this different new breed of information specialist
 - written by a practitioner in the field
 - gives practical advice on how to initiate similar developments in readers’ own institutions
 - presented in a clear, concise and interesting style

Aimed at practitioners and students of librarianship, this book is about interesting and unusual practical projects currently being run in by academic liaison librarians. It shows how liaison librarians can extend their roles beyond the established one of information literacy teaching and showcases areas in which they can engage in collaborative ventures with academic and administrative staff. Designed to excite and inspire, New Directions for Academic Liaison Librarians demonstrates the potential of the liaison role and emphasises the need for flexibility, imagination and initiative in those who hold these posts.

Readership: Practitioners and students of librarianship as well as academic managers and administrators.

£47.50 / US$80.00 / €55.00

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About the author

Dr Alice Crawford is Senior Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of St Andrews Library. She has been librarian of a further education college, a subject librarian at Glasgow University Library, and worked in areas as diverse as Special Collections, Divinity, Engineering and Official Publications. She has also enjoyed earlier careers in university administration and teaching. A Chartered Librarian, she has published a research monograph on the novelist Rose Macaulay as well as articles on librarianship.

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Contents

Introduction
 - What does academic liaison mean?
 - From subject librarian to academic liaison?
 - Subject librarians plus
 - Overview of the book
 - Notes

Liaison in the wider world: a medical librarian in Malawi
 - Background to the project
 - Initial impressions
 - Working with the library
 - Networking and liaison
 - Post-project activities
 - Lessons learned for similar projects
 - Notes

Liaison and bibliometric support: the UK Research Assessment Exercise
 - Background to the project: what is the RAE?
 - Library contribution to the RAE: the Glasgow
 - University experience
 - Process details
 - Opportunities for the library
 - The institutional repository: Enlighten
 - The role of liaison
 - Lessons learned for similar projects
 - Notes

Liaison and virtual worlds
 - Virtual worlds
 - Teaching a course in Second Life: the librarian’s role
 - Teaching the teachers in Second Life
 - Virtual worlds teaching: pros and cons
 - The Karuna Island Project
 - Other virtual worlds roles for librarians?
 - Lessons learned for similar projects
 - Notes

Liaison and digital scholarship
 - The Australian Poetry Library, University of Sydney
 - Glasgow Emblem Digitisation Project, University of Glasgow
 - Mark Twain Papers and Project, California Digital Library
 - Lessons learned for similar projects
 - Notes

Liaison and open access journals
 - Background to the project: the Institutional
 - Repository
 - The journals project
 - Set-up and production stages
 - The liaison role
 - Future plans
 - Lessons learned for similar projects
 - Notes

Liaison and community outreach: a Friends of the Library Group
 - Setting up the group
 - Programme of events
 - Finance and administration
 - King James Library Lectures
 - Lessons learned for similar projects
 - Notes

Liaison and library buildings
 - Background to the project
 - Project development
 - The liaison role
 - Fundraising
 - Library involvement in the design
 - Lessons learned for similar projects
 - Notes

Conclusion
 - The changing role of the liaison librarian
 - Embedded librarianship
 - The future for academic liaison?
 - Academic liaison in the Arts: a personal view
 - Case study round-up
 - Notes