Conference Program

Climate Changes in the Information Profession
     Many today are questioning the relevance and value of libraries in the Google and Wikipedia Age. The communities we serve are increasingly diverse, with competing and contradictory expectations for information services. Increasing demands on everyone in the academy--faculty, students, and staff--are changing work habits and forcing redefinition of roles and priorities. From multiple perspectives based on her own experiences (faculty researcher and teacher, academic librarian, national information policy maker, and professional society president), Dr. Hahn will discuss the challenges and opportunities for librarians today and in the coming years and offer strategies for strengthening our profession and gaining recognition for our contributions to our institutions and the people we serve.

University of Maryland - Tecnológico de Monterrey: The History of the Sister Libraries Program
     As a result of ACRL President Camila Alire's promotion of the concept of Sister Libraries to academic libraries, Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) and the University of Maryland Libraries in College Park, Maryland agreed to pursue the goal of developing a Sister Libraries program. This presentation will cover the history of this endeavor on both sides and how we came to be, formally, sister libraries.

Presentation (Power Point)

Rethinking Resource Sharing
     The Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative (RRS) advocates for a revolution in the way that libraries conduct resource sharing. This global effort seeks to help librarians move from a library-centric model to a user-centric approach that includes the possibility of sending material directly to patrons or offering people commercial alternatives to getting information. During this program, we will discuss the RRS initiative, its Manifesto for Rethinking Resource Sharing / Un Manifiesto para Reconsiderar el Uso Compartido de Recursos as well as some exciting new programs and solutions for library resource sharing.

Presentation (PDF)

Building Liaison Relationships: Some Practical Ideas
     Building strong relationships between libraries and librarians on one hand and departments on campus and teaching faculty on the other, has been one of the most challenging priorities to many academic libraries in the United States. The great expectation in all these cases is to build a strong mutual partnership between the librarians and teaching faculty in order to advance the educational experience of students and research capabilities for faculty. However too often these goals do not develop properly and reach their desired potential. How does one start in building liaison relationships with faculty in perspective departments? What kind of educational and professional background can help a liaison librarian in such a position? How does one develop further skills? And what kind of possible results can one expect to achieve from such partnerships? These issues will be examined in relationship to collection development, instruction, and reference, based on the presenter's experience at the University of Maryland.

Presentation (PowerPoint)

Bibliography (Word Doc)

     This presentation will describe the experiences of an interdicsiplianry team of faculty librarians at the Interactive Center for Information Resources and Learning (CIRIA), during six years of work at this institution. The University of the Americas, in Puebla, created the position of faculty librarian, in the Fall of 2002. The faculty librarian, in this new collaborative framework, serves as a liaison between librarians and faculty, by designing and delivering both formal and informal academic programs oriented towards facilitating the promotion of information literacy and knowledge management. The faculty librarian also participates in diverse research and institutional programs and events that reflect the interests of the student body.

The Development and Evaluation of a User Education Program for the English Department at the University of Maryland
     Over the last seven years the two liaison librarians for the English Department have worked with the Directors of the English Department's Graduate Studies and Undergraduate Studies programs to develop a comprehensive information literacy program for students and faculty in the Department. This session will discuss the development of this program, which consists of an ongoing series of library instruction sessions, orientations for new graduate students, the preparation of individualized web course pages, and one-on-one in-depth research consultation services for students and faculty. The session will also discuss various assessment tools the librarians developed to measure the efficacy of several components of the program.

Presentation (PowerPoint)

Campus Colleagues: Librarian/Faculty Collaboration Benefits
     Research assignments are frustrating to students, librarians and faculty. Students find it frustrating because they are not sure what topic to select and how to go about collecting the often specified number and type of sources. Librarians are frustrated because the students just want to find the sources, without learning or thinking about research strategy. Faculty are frustrated with the results. In this session presenters will discuss strategies and benefits of collaborating on research assignments.

Presentation (PowerPoint)

Developing a Subject Library with Drupal OpenSoftware and Google Custom Search Engine
     The presenters will discuss the process they used to develop the subject Library for the School of Medicine and Biotechnology. They will outline the the factors that led to the creation of this specialized subject portal, the portal's main components, and the improvements in Library service for teachers and students expected as a result of its implementation.

Presentation (Power Point)

Integrated Instruction: Making Library Research a Part of the Curriculum
     Presentation on the history of librarian-faculty collaboration in developing library research-focused courses on the topic of the Cold War, the establishment of an online undergraduate peer-reviewed journal, and successful campus grant applications to support these joint projects.

Power Point Presentation.

Developing Collaborative Strategies Between the Libraries and the Business School at the University of Maryland
     Zaida will discuss her experience building relationships with the faculty from the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, based on the three core areas of responsibility for reference librarians at UMD: reference, collection development and instruction. More specifically, this presentation will focus on developing different collaborative programs with faculty, making research methods part of core undergraduate and graduate business courses through workshops, seminars, classes and onsite support for faculty and students, both on campus and on satellite campuses. As an example, Zaida will also share her experience developing and using a Web-based teaching tool - the Virtual Business Information Center (VBIC). VBIC (http://vbic.umd.edu) is an integrated web site that students and faculty can use as a gateway for all their business research needs.

Power Point Presentation.

Strategies to Support Faculty in the Design of Academic Activities that Promote Information Literacy (The Homework "IL" and "The Three Steps")
     This presentation will describe strategies to collaborate with faculty in the design and implementation of academic activities that promote information literacy, to support the teaching/learning process, and the development of the standards proposed by the American Library Association amongst students at the Virtual University of the Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Presentation (PDF)

Library Bibliographic Profiles: Collection Development in Close Cooperation with the Academy
     Integral and effective collection development must be focused not only toward the harmonic growth of collections in the Library, but also toward building products that can facilitate the correct use of the Catalog for information discover. A truly useful Catalog should also supply the kind of records that can be a powerful tool for referential feedback for the information suppliers. A collection development tool must also serve as a useful guide to topic sources for improving information literacy. This strategic plan requires the strongest collaboration between the Academy and Librarian-Bibliographers.

Faculty and Graduate Student Information Needs: A Day at the Workplace
     In this presentation, a faculty member will describe "a typical day at the workplace" in which diverse types of information sources and services support her teaching and research activities. Diverse suggestions for future collaborations involving faculty, graduate students, and library staff will also be discussed.