Fundamentals for the Academic Liaison
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.
Richard Moniz has been a director of library services for Johnson & Wales University since 1997. He has also, in the past, simultaneously served as head of information technology services and taught classes on various subjects, and has taught for the MLIS program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro since 2006.
Jo Henry is currently the information services librarian at South Piedmont Community College.
Joe Eshleman has been the instruction librarian at Johnson & Wales University Library–Charlotte since 2008. During this time, he has taught numerous library instruction sessions.