Abstract

Iknew when I decided to pack my bags and move across the country to begin my career as an academic librarian that I would meet some challenges. Learning campus culture, navigating organizational charts, and building relationships with my co-workers and departments would all be a part of my initiation. Less clear was how I was going to define my role as a library liaison when I lacked subject knowledge in some of my assigned areas. As a liaison to Spanish Languages and Literature, I met the position description’s “reading and writing ability” requirement, but I hardly possessed expertise. No worries, I thought. I am a librarian: I don’t have to know everything; I just need to know where to find it. Librarians with subject knowledge pos

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