Liaison Engagement Success
eBook - ePub

Liaison Engagement Success

A Practical Guide for Librarians

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Liaison Engagement Success

A Practical Guide for Librarians

About this book

As liaison librarianship has evolved from a collections-centric to an engagement-centric model, liaisons have had to grapple with new and evolving competencies and skills that are focused on how to engage with diverse constituencies and stakeholders. But what does that mean practically?
Liaison Engagement Success: A Practical Guide for Librarians will answer that question for academic liaison librarians, whether they are new to the profession or new to the liaison role. It offer specific proven strategies for engaging with user communities. Every community is different, and a liaison who takes up the tasks of engagement will need to be committed to building relationships, being flexible, and listening well, in order to understand the community's needs and meet them.
This book offers specific strategies for :
Getting to know a user communityFinding effective strategies for proactive outreachCollaborating with others for effective engagementEvaluating and assessing the engagement that is happeningThe book features practical tips and case studies for engagement with different disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, STEM, arts, professional disciplines, and with non-academic units.

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Yes, you can access Liaison Engagement Success by Ellen Hampton Filgo,Sha Towers in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Library & Information Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. List of Contributors
  3. List of Figures and Table
  4. Preface
  5. CHAPTER 1 History and Evolution of Liaison Librarianship
  6. CHAPTER 2 Getting to Know Your User Community
  7. CHAPTER 3 Mindsets for Liaison Work
  8. CHAPTER 4 Strategies for Outreach
  9. CHAPTER 5 Engagement with the Humanities
  10. CHAPTER 6 Engagement with the Social Sciences
  11. CHAPTER 7 Engagement with the STEM Fields
  12. CHAPTER 8 Engagement in the Arts
  13. CHAPTER 9 Engagement with the Professional Disciplines
  14. CHAPTER 10 Engagement with Nonacademic Units
  15. CHAPTER 11 Collaboration and Partnership Inside and Outside the Library
  16. CHAPTER 12 Leadership of Engaged Liaisons
  17. CHAPTER 13 Assessment and Evaluation of Engaged Librarians
  18. Bibliography
  19. About the Authors