SPEC Kit 301: Liaison Services (October 2007)
This SPEC Kit explores the current roles of liaisons in ARL libraries, any changes in focus in their interactions with academic departments, whether liaisons are being reactive to faculty and student needs, partners in providing teaching/library instruction, and pioneers in the new electronic world or have limited involvement with the academic departments. It documents how libraries mix the activities of traditional liaison responsibilities with the new trends that are fostered by the evolving needs of today’s library patrons.
The survey was distributed to the 123 ARL member libraries in May 2007. Sixty-six libraries—63 academic and 3 non-academic—responded by the deadline for a 54% response rate. Only one of the academic libraries does not provide liaison services to academic departments in their university; these services are not applicable to the non-academic libraries. Twenty-nine of the responding libraries (49%) began offering liaison services before 1980.
This SPEC Kit includes documentation from respondents in the form of descriptions of liaison roles, responsibilities, and services offered, job descriptions, and training materials for liaisons.
Logue, Susan, John Ballestro, Andrea Imre, and Julie Arendt. Liaison Services. SPEC Kit 301. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, October 2007.
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SPEC Kit 301: Liaison Services (October 2007)
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Liaison Services frontmatter
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Survey Results
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Representative Documents
5353
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Liaison Roles and Responsibilities
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Position Descriptions
7575
- Brown University 7676
- University of California, Irvine 7979
- University of California, San Diego 8383
- University of California, San Diego 8585
- George Washington University 8787
- Johns Hopkins University 8989
- Michigan State University 9090
- Michigan State University 9191
- University of Virginia 9292
- University of Washington 9393
- University of Waterloo 9595
- Wayne State University 9898
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Training Materials for Liaisons
9999
- Boston College 100100
- University at Buffalo, SUNY 103103
- University of California, Irvine 109109
- University of California, Irvine 112112
- University of California, San Diego 115115
- Michigan State University 118118
- University of Tennessee 127127
- University of Tennessee 128128
- University of Texas at Austin 129129
- University of Texas at Austin 132132
- University of Texas at Austin 134134
- Texas A&M University 139139
- University of Washington 142142
- University of Wisconsin-Madison 145145
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Descriptions of Services Offered by Liaisons
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- University of Alberta 150150
- Brown University 151151
- Colorado State University 152152
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln 153153
- North Carolina State University 154154
- University Of Oregon 156156
- Purdue University 158158
- University of Tennessee 159159
- University of Tennessee 160160
- University of Tennessee 161161
- University of Virginia 162162
- Wayne State University 163163
- University of Wisconsin-Madison 164164
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Liaison Roles and Responsibilities
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Selected Resources
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SPEC Kit 301: Liaison Services (October 2007)