154 · Representative Documents: Responsibilities, Competencies, Goals
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
A Framework for the Engaged Librarian
http://library.osu.edu/staff/administration-reports/Engaged_Librarian_Framework_Dec2011.pdf
Competencies:
• Analyzing and understanding users’
research and information needs to
develop, refine, assess, and sustain
research and information services and
programs in all formats
• Actively seeking opportunities to foster
interdisciplinary collaborations in the
provision of research and information
services across the campus
• Providing research consultations
that involve subject or other in-depth
specialized areas of expertise
• Providing on-demand research and
information support in multiple formats
• Continuously evaluating and assessing
research and information-related services
Examples of
best practices:
• Developing and conducting
studies to assess users’ research,
information, and technology needs
(using data from Ask Database,
web logs, circulation statistics,
ILL Statistics, interviewing key
constituents)
• Sharing information with colleagues
about disciplinary trends and OSUL/
University activities
• Creating research portals, research
wikis, research blogs, and other virtual
tools and resources
• Offering regular virtual and
in-person office hours in departments
• Creating and maintaining
appropriate online research guides,
tutorials, etc.
• Regularly surveying departmental
web sites, listservs, press releases,
OSUToday, onCampus and
other appropriates sources to
identify faculty research interests,
announcements of new University
initiatives and centers, etc.
• Contributing to Subject Teams and
other groups in planning services for
interdisciplinary
projects and strategic priorities at the
campus level
• Establishing research mentorships
with students writing undergraduate
theses
Engagement
Engagement is a deepened level of
sustained, high-quality, mutually ben-
eficial interaction in the liaison role
with academic programs.
Competencies:
• Communicating effectively with
members of the assigned depart-
ments, individually or in groups, in
both face-to-face and virtual venues
• Developing partnerships when ap-
propriate between the library and the
assigned area on collection building,
teaching and learning issues, grants
or research projects, or other areas of
mutual interest
• Creating new programs and services
(or improving existing programs and
services) that respond to identified
needs and priorities of students and
faculty and to strategic directions of
the Library
• Facilitating problem-solving for
the assigned programs in relation to
library services
• Championing the library as an intel-
lectual meeting place for program-
ming, conversation, and inquiry
Examples of
best practices:
• Communicating often with faculty,
students, academic staff, and admin-
istrators in assigned areas
• Participating in departmental
meetings and other events such as
colloquia, seminars or dissertation
defenses
• Participating in discipline-specific
organizations and associations
• Inviting faculty to share their
scholarship through library-sponsored
programs and events
Research Services
Provide expert research consultation to members of the university community
through understanding user needs, extending specialized services to users ap-
propriate for their discipline and points in their research workflow, and assess-
ing the services offered in order to improve them.
The Ohio State University Libraries
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
A Framework for the Engaged Librarian
http://library.osu.edu/staff/administration-reports/Engaged_Librarian_Framework_Dec2011.pdf
Competencies:
• Analyzing and understanding users’
research and information needs to
develop, refine, assess, and sustain
research and information services and
programs in all formats
• Actively seeking opportunities to foster
interdisciplinary collaborations in the
provision of research and information
services across the campus
• Providing research consultations
that involve subject or other in-depth
specialized areas of expertise
• Providing on-demand research and
information support in multiple formats
• Continuously evaluating and assessing
research and information-related services
Examples of
best practices:
• Developing and conducting
studies to assess users’ research,
information, and technology needs
(using data from Ask Database,
web logs, circulation statistics,
ILL Statistics, interviewing key
constituents)
• Sharing information with colleagues
about disciplinary trends and OSUL/
University activities
• Creating research portals, research
wikis, research blogs, and other virtual
tools and resources
• Offering regular virtual and
in-person office hours in departments
• Creating and maintaining
appropriate online research guides,
tutorials, etc.
• Regularly surveying departmental
web sites, listservs, press releases,
OSUToday, onCampus and
other appropriates sources to
identify faculty research interests,
announcements of new University
initiatives and centers, etc.
• Contributing to Subject Teams and
other groups in planning services for
interdisciplinary
projects and strategic priorities at the
campus level
• Establishing research mentorships
with students writing undergraduate
theses
Engagement
Engagement is a deepened level of
sustained, high-quality, mutually ben-
eficial interaction in the liaison role
with academic programs.
Competencies:
• Communicating effectively with
members of the assigned depart-
ments, individually or in groups, in
both face-to-face and virtual venues
• Developing partnerships when ap-
propriate between the library and the
assigned area on collection building,
teaching and learning issues, grants
or research projects, or other areas of
mutual interest
• Creating new programs and services
(or improving existing programs and
services) that respond to identified
needs and priorities of students and
faculty and to strategic directions of
the Library
• Facilitating problem-solving for
the assigned programs in relation to
library services
• Championing the library as an intel-
lectual meeting place for program-
ming, conversation, and inquiry
Examples of
best practices:
• Communicating often with faculty,
students, academic staff, and admin-
istrators in assigned areas
• Participating in departmental
meetings and other events such as
colloquia, seminars or dissertation
defenses
• Participating in discipline-specific
organizations and associations
• Inviting faculty to share their
scholarship through library-sponsored
programs and events
Research Services
Provide expert research consultation to members of the university community
through understanding user needs, extending specialized services to users ap-
propriate for their discipline and points in their research workflow, and assess-
ing the services offered in order to improve them.
The Ohio State University Libraries
