This document discusses innovative ways that academic librarians are integrating themselves within higher education. It outlines three domains of integration: cross-unit collaboration, liaison involvement, and designing innovative assignments. Examples are provided of liaison involvement such as attending faculty meetings and developing collections. The document also discusses designing assignments collaboratively with faculty and developing student-driven outcomes. Living learning communities and adjunct teaching roles for librarians are presented as additional ways for integration.

1. Innovative Integrations in Higher Ed
OR:
GOOD LIBRARIANS
GO COMMANDO
Colleen S. Harris
colleen-harris@utc.edu
@warmaiden

2. Picture used with attribution to Flickr user ExpertInfantry:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/expertinfantry/5422864565/

3. 3 DOMAINS OF INTEGRATION
• Cross-Unit Collaboration
• Liaison Involvement
• Designing Innovative Assignments
/Developing Student-Driven Research
Outcomes

4. Liaison Involvement
• The usual suspects
– Attending faculty
meetings
– Collection development
liaising
– Reference & instruction
liaising

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6. Liaison Involvement
• UTC Lupton Library’s Collection Review
Project
– Entire Collection Review
• Librarians
• Faculty
– Complete Transparency:
• See
http://www.lib.utc.edu/Collection-Review-Project-
2.html

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aphy/2542123690/

9. ONE DOES NOT
SIMPLY WALK INTO
MORDOR FACULTY
MEETINGS WITHOUT
A COMMITTEE
HORROR STORY

10. • Regular committee work
–(Petitions, Admissions, Curricul
um)
• Search committees
(CIO, EdD, POLS)
• Advisory councils (WSTU, Faculty
Senate)

11. The Freshman Seminar
• Reality TV in
Literature: The
Hunger Games &
Its Predecessors
• Beyond Facebook
• BYOB: Build Your Virginia Cairns, Head of Reference & Instruction
Own Brand

12. The Freshman Seminar
• Vampires, Zombie
s & Philosophy
– Lane
Wilkinson, Reference
& Instruction
Librarian, Liaison to
Philosophy & Religion
department (as well as
Management, Finance
& Accounting)
Lane Wilkinson
Photo used with permission
http://senseandreference.files.wordpress.com
/2010/01/img_1221.jpg

13. LIVING LEARNING COMMUNITIES
• Poetry &
Mythmaking
• Alternative
Traditions in U.S.
Cinema
– Bo Baker, liaison to
Communication and
Theatre & Speech
departments, Inform
ation Commons
Librarian

14. Adjuncting
• Faculty respect
knowledge.
• Help fill gaps in
upper level
electives for
understaffed
academic
departments
– (Classics example)
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Picture used with attribution to Flickr user ExpertInfantry:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/expertinfantry/5422864565/

16. DESIGNING INNOVATIVE ASSIGNMENTS
• DEEP READING • MAXIMIZE LIBRARY
• Partnering with EQUIPMENT
faculty in this • Video Cameras &
domain requires that Digital Still Cameras
you know the for Documentary &
curriculum, course Poster Work (Visual
content (syllabus Rhetoric)
level), and ACTIVELY • Tablets for study of
working with faculty mobile devices in
to design their Communications
courses classes

17. STUDENT-DRIVEN LEARNING
OUTCOMES
• Access to or control
of assignment design
• Student preference &
interest offers
surprising leverage
• Example from the
Poetry & Myth living
learning community
– a cross-course final
exam http://www.flickr.com/photos/stickergiant/5204700407/

18. Why Your Boss Needs to Know
You Go Commando
Colleen S. Harris (@warmaiden)
Head of Access Services & Asst. Professor
Liaison to English, Political Science, & Economics
Faculty Senate Representative & Secretary
Adjunct Faculty in English, Women’s Studies, &
Classics
EdD in Learning & Leadership student
& more