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• Engage faculty and other teaching staff in order to integrate information literacy
concepts and skills into the curriculum.
Reference Services
General expectations for liaisons who are not reference librarians
• Promote reference services and Ask a Librarian
• Be aware of hours and staffing, and current formats and scope of reference service
• Serve as a communication conduit between faculty and the library regarding their existing and
evolving needs for reference services and tools
• Be able to make referrals to appropriate reference staff
Suggested best practices for liaisons who are reference librarians include:
• Maintain regular contact with department/program to learn about researchers’ needs
and discuss research support issues
• Be proficient in effective catalog and database searching, finding sources, requesting
materials, citation style, current alerts, citation management, information management,
technical troubleshooting, etc.
• Keep current with new databases, resources, technologies, library discovery systems,
library web site design, etc.
• Attend reference training sessions
• Answer questions fully and knowledgeably
• Participate in staffing of reference desk, email, phone, chat, and/or text a Librarian
• Provide research consultations
Scholarly Communications
General expectations for liaisons who are not experts in scholarly communication
• Be familiar with emerging issues (e.g., open access mandates) and programs (e.g., A&S
grants, Cornell Open Access Publication fund) in scholarly communication.
• Be familiar with resources and service points to assist with intellectual property rights
issues, including copyright, fair use and plagiarism.
• Promote use of institutional and subject repositories and foster a better understanding
of open access and new models of scholarly communication.
• Engage faculty and teaching staff regarding digital media creation opportunities.
• Be sufficiently informed of issues related to data management in order to make
appropriate referrals to the Research Data Management Service Group (RDMSG) or
other experts.
• Serve as a communication conduit between faculty and the library regarding their
existing and evolving needs for scholarly communications services and tools
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Strategic Objective III.1 Formalize the Network of Library Liaisons… Appendix 4
16
• Engage faculty and other teaching staff in order to integrate information literacy
concepts and skills into the curriculum.
Reference Services
General expectations for liaisons who are not reference librarians
• Promote reference services and Ask a Librarian
• Be aware of hours and staffing, and current formats and scope of reference service
• Serve as a communication conduit between faculty and the library regarding their existing and
evolving needs for reference services and tools
• Be able to make referrals to appropriate reference staff
Suggested best practices for liaisons who are reference librarians include:
• Maintain regular contact with department/program to learn about researchers’ needs
and discuss research support issues
• Be proficient in effective catalog and database searching, finding sources, requesting
materials, citation style, current alerts, citation management, information management,
technical troubleshooting, etc.
• Keep current with new databases, resources, technologies, library discovery systems,
library web site design, etc.
• Attend reference training sessions
• Answer questions fully and knowledgeably
• Participate in staffing of reference desk, email, phone, chat, and/or text a Librarian
• Provide research consultations
Scholarly Communications
General expectations for liaisons who are not experts in scholarly communication
• Be familiar with emerging issues (e.g., open access mandates) and programs (e.g., A&S
grants, Cornell Open Access Publication fund) in scholarly communication.
• Be familiar with resources and service points to assist with intellectual property rights
issues, including copyright, fair use and plagiarism.
• Promote use of institutional and subject repositories and foster a better understanding
of open access and new models of scholarly communication.
• Engage faculty and teaching staff regarding digital media creation opportunities.
• Be sufficiently informed of issues related to data management in order to make
appropriate referrals to the Research Data Management Service Group (RDMSG) or
other experts.
• Serve as a communication conduit between faculty and the library regarding their
existing and evolving needs for scholarly communications services and tools
