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