Abstract
This paper examines the relationships that developed over a 10+ year span at a comprehensive college in upstate New York. When the library was reorganized into a generalist model of library support, the faculty members felt unsupported. The paper explains the origin of the department-wide collaboration and then uses reflections to analyze ways in which the relationship with a liaison librarian support the faculty members work. Specific themes include overcoming library anxiety, online teaching support, and scholarship support with suggestions for librarian practice.
Highlights
This paper examines the relationships that developed over a 10+ year span at a comprehensive college in upstate New York
We were all surprised to learn that a librarian could help us with each unique aspect of our profession, and we continued to be surprised as our relationship with our librarian evolved to reach new levels of collaboration
This paper began as a result of our institution moving away from a liaison-based library support model to a functional specialist model where all librarians were considered interchangeable regardless of disciplinary expertise
Summary
Autoethnography has recently flourished as a qualitative method, privileging the personalized voices of the autoethnographers as data to represent their lived experiences (Wall, 2016). Two senior faculty members already embedded Logan in their courses Throughout the semester he came to my class and gave search tool instruction, support for using library tools for annotated bibliographies, and showed students library templates for organizing their papers in a scholarly manner. Analysis and Discussion Our stories of librarian collaboration reflect the range of academic instruction and librarian responsibilities– from bringing students to use the library and planning online courses, to writing for professional journals. While examining these unique reflections, several key ideas emerged that demonstrated our new understanding of the many affordances of working with our librarian in a liaison-based model of librarian collaboration.
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