Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries

Linda S Katz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781135796235
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Discover innovative outreach services you can implement for your library!

Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries examines the creation and delivery of outreach programs designed to promote awareness of the library by meeting the information needs of underserved or uninformed patrons. This book contains the experiences of academic and special librarians who describe a wide array of successful outreach programs that are in place throughout the country. This valuable tool introduces professional librarians and library science students and faculty to current and highly innovative models of outreach services implemented in a variety of academic and special library settings.

This extensive resource shows how to use outreach programs to market new information resources and services to library constituents. Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries contains charts, graphs, and pictorials to help walk you through the process of creating an outreach program at your library. This book also presents bibliographies, suggestions on how to improve on existing designs, and the librarians' wish lists of ideas they'd like to try in the future.

Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries presents case studies covering many topics related to outreach services, including:

• outreach to special groups of remote users
• multicultural outreach
• collaborative outreach partnerships with university and college departments and community organizations
• outreach Web sites targeting special groups
• marketing library services and resources
• information literacy as a form of outreach
• multi-media kiosks and exhibits
• book talks
• outreach to new faculty and transfer students
• and more!

Librarians will benefit from the wide range of creative ideas and successful case studies implemented by library colleagues representing institutions from around the country. Outreach Services in Academic and Special Libraries serves as a catalyst for librarians to implement similar outreach programs at their own academic or special library.

Index

Page numbers followed by f indicate figures; those followed by t indicate tables.

A Cook’s Tour of Sonoma County, 192

“A Cook’s Tour of the Information Center,” 192

ABC Radio Network, 172

Academic libraries

community involvement by, 199-213

outreach, literature review related to, 20-22

outreach programs at, models for, 39-55. See also Library outreach initiatives, models for

Academic Search Premiere, 65

Academic Skills Center, at Oakland University, 15

Academic web site, “Research for Teens” web site, 141-155. See also Bilingual outreach; “Research for Teens” web site

“Accessing Information for Research” (Gen Ed 300), at Washington State University, 26

ACRL Information Literacy Standards (ACRL 2002), 23-24

2002, 30

ACRL President’s Discussion Forum, 41

ADEC. See Agricultural Distance Education Consortium (ADEC)

Adobe Acrobat Capture, 135

Adobe Photoshop, 135

ADOL. See “Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL)”

“Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL),” 144

Advisory and Planning Commission, for Cornell University Library Junior Fellows Program, 165-166

African-American Celebration Committee, 11

African-American Celebration Month, 1, 8, 12

African-American churches, Internet access and training for, 171-182

background of, 173-174

described, 177-179

follow-up activities, 179-180

full project, 177

history of, 174-175

introduction to, 171-172

pilot project, 175-177

program description, 175-180

sessions in, described, 177-178

trainees in, 177-178

“African-Americans and the Internet,” 172

AgNIC. See also Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)

AgNIC Coordinator, from National Agricultural Library, 132

AgNIC effort, western regional, future plans for, 138-140

AgNIC rangelands collaboration, western regional, 132-134, 134f

AgNIC site, collaborative, as outreach model, 125-140. See also Rangelands of the Western U.S.

AGRICOLA database, 136

Agricultural Distance Education Consortium (ADEC), 139

Agricultural Safety and Health in a New Century, 118

Agricultural Telecommunications Program, 139

Agriculture, sustainable, economic viability in, resources for, 111-112

Agriculture Librarian, at Kansas State University, 138

Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC), University of Arizona’s involvement in, collaborative model of, 128-131, 129f, 131f

Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) site, 131

collaborative, as outreach model, 125-140. See also Rangelands of the We...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Introduction
• Beyond These Walls: Building a Library Outreach Program at Oakland University
• Instructional Outreach Across the Curriculum: Enhancing the Liaison Role at a Research University
• Multiple Models for Library Outreach Initiatives
• Faculty Outreach: A Win-Win Proposition
• Meeting Changing Information Needs of Illinois Firefighters: Analysis of Queries Received from Outreach Reference Service
• Grassroots to Grassfed: Libraries Partner with Local Organizations to Address the Information Needs of Farming Communities in Upstate New York
• Building a Collaborative AgNIC Site as an Outreach Model: Rangelands of the Western U.S.
• Bilingual Outreach: “Research for Teens” on an Academic Web Site
• Taking Library Recruitment a Step Closer: Recruiting the Next Generation of Librarians
• Internet Access and Training for African-American Churches: Reducing Disparities in Health Information Access
• If You Build It Will They Come? Using a New Library Building to Establish a Culture of Marketing
• Outreach: Why, How and Who? Academic Libraries and Their Involvement in the Community
• Index