92 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Direct contact with departments, faculty, and students (2-way communication). Provides level of instructional
expertise within library staff. Provides high-level collection development and curation knowledge because of working
relationships with department.
Direct involvement with faculty and students in academic departments helps make planning more user-focused. Liaison
work increases opportunities for instruction and increases awareness and use of our collections. Liaison work increases
opportunities to be partners in ongoing scholarly endeavors.
Engages the Libraries in the research and educational life of the university. Allows us to understand user needs and act
on them.
Enhancing the university’s research capacity and competitiveness. Informing the Libraries’ strategic planning, directions,
and investments. Leveraging the knowledge of disciplinary librarians to facilitate resource discovery and promote
services and capabilities of the library that contribute to faculty and student success.
Faculty and students receive customized, expert support services. The library’s collections are better matched to
user needs.
Faculty find the tailored support and expertise extremely valuable. Through the liaisons library administration can learn
about the specific needs of departments and faculty. The libraries are integrated into departments in a diverse range of
support that reflects the variety of disciplinary needs.
Formal engagement with campus community. Personal and professional satisfaction. Gaining knowledge about needs
and desires of campus community.
Good communication with faculty/students. Faculty/student satisfaction with liaison and library services. One point
person for all library info and questions.
Greater awareness of teaching and research trends. Opportunities to promote library services and resources, including
information literacy. Immerse library into faculty and student work stream.
Greater visibility and relevance to university community and research life cycle. Ability to partner on research activities in
academic and non-academic departments. Greater understanding of value of librarian work by external stakeholders.
Improve outcomes for researchers and students. Tailor the library collection to campus needs. Stay aware of new
scholarly trends and needs.
Improved relationships with and closer ties to everyone on campus. These relationships help with student retention and
help us create a stronger library collection. Better visibility of issues important to libraries (information literacy, open
access, etc.) and opportunities for influence on curriculum, campus priorities, etc. Better opportunities to develop point-
of-need assistance through instruction, consultation, etc., where that assistance is most useful.
Improves communication with academic departments. Encourages support of the library and its mission. Guides our
spending of collection development funds.
Increased communication. Support for student/faculty research and success.
Increased engagement with departmental research needs. Targeted support for graduate and undergraduate students.
New partnerships.
Increased engagement with the library and the value added to research, teaching, and learning. Increased support for
the library. Ensuring the ongoing relevance of the library to the university.
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