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representatives. The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre advisory committee (under development).
It is its own office and staff within the university, but they incorporate library public events and activities in their
outreach.
Library faculty and staff are often named to committees for specific community projects, such as United Way/SEFA
annual campaigns, UB programs for public schools, Gifted Math program for high school students.
We have a strong partnership with the University’s Center for Educational Partnerships, and we have been included
in the planning and implementation of various activities.
Additional Comments
[Library is not represented.] However we support them with information services and resources as appropriate.
Many flowers blossom in our garden little coordination.
No formal work groups where libraries has designated representation. But libraries are involved in many of the
activities and programs of those named units and activities, in large part through the Libraries Development Office.
The Applebaum Chair in Community Engagement is not really a committee. President Reid does, however, sponsor a
Web site on Community Engagement at Wayne that links into library resources.
The library has an Officer for Marketing and Outreach. This individual coordinates the library’s efforts to support and
promote community engagement.
The library has an official representative on the Faculty Senate University Service, Public Service and Outreach
Council.
The library participates in its community events each year, such as the Foggy Bottom Street Fair, and the library offers
community members in this group a special rate on Friends of the Libraries membership and access rates.
The University Libraries have been represented on the Coordinating Committee for Outreach in the past. The Dean is
a member of the World Campus Coordinating Committee (Penn State Online).
There are different outreach activities at York through research centres and departments, but no centralized body
to manage/oversee them all. Last year the Jean Augustine Chair in Education in the New Urban Environment was
established.
There is not a committee for this center, but they are housed in the library and so their staff and library staff interact
regularly.
VP External, Legal, and Community Relations portfolio units include: Ceremonies &Events, Chan Centre for the
Performing Arts, Community Affairs, Government Relations, Office of the Associate Vice-President International,
Learning Exchange, Public Affairs, UBC Robson Square, University Counsel.
We train Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program students and train UCD students in the quarter and summer
abroad programs. In addition, we work with a variety of outreach groups that include the Fulbright Scholar
Programs and Students and Scholars in Services to International Students and Scholars.
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