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Innovative Integrations in Higher Ed
OR: GOOD LIBRARIANS
GO COMMANDO
Colleen S. Harriscolleen-harris@utc.edu
@warmaiden
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3 DOMAINS OF INTEGRATION
• Cross-Unit Collaboration• Liaison Involvement• Designing Innovative Assignments
/Developing Student-Driven Research Outcomes
Liaison Involvement
• The usual suspects– Attending faculty
meetings– Collection development
liaising– Reference & instruction
liaising
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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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ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY WALK INTO MORDOR FACULTY
MEETINGS WITHOUT A COMMITTEE
HORROR STORY
• Regular committee work –(Petitions, Admissions, Curriculum)
• Search committees (CIO, EdD, POLS)
• Advisory councils (WSTU, Faculty Senate)
The Freshman Seminar
• Reality TV in Literature: The Hunger Games & Its Predecessors
• Beyond Facebook
• BYOB: Build Your Own Brand
Virginia Cairns, Head of Reference & Instruction
The Freshman Seminar
• Vampires, Zombies & Philosophy– Lane Wilkinson,
Reference & Instruction Librarian, Liaison to Philosophy & Religion department (as well as Management, Finance & Accounting)
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LIVING LEARNING COMMUNITIES
• Poetry & Mythmaking
• Alternative Traditions in U.S. Cinema– Bo Baker, liaison to
Communication and Theatre & Speech departments, Information Commons Librarian
Adjuncting
• Faculty respect knowledge.
• Help fill gaps in upper level electives for understaffed academic departments – (Classics example)
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LEVEL UP
TAKE A CLASS
DESIGNING INNOVATIVE ASSIGNMENTS
• DEEP READING• Partnering with
faculty in this domain requires that you know the curriculum, course content (syllabus level), and ACTIVELY working with faculty to design their courses
• MAXIMIZE LIBRARY EQUIPMENT
• Video Cameras & Digital Still Cameras for Documentary & Poster Work (Visual Rhetoric)
• Tablets for study of mobile devices in Communications classes
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
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Why Your Boss Needs to Know You Go Commando
Colleen S. Harris (@warmaiden)Head of Access Services & Asst. ProfessorLiaison to English, Political Science, & Economics
Faculty Senate Representative & Secretary Adjunct Faculty in English, Women’s Studies, &
Classics
EdD in Learning & Leadership student& more