students, and explore areas of collaboration with partners on campus and externally, I believe our efforts to amplify and support the educational role of library liaisons will be one of our most fruitful and valuable endeavors. 1 For example the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) launched as a pilot in 1999, http://nsse.iub.edu/. 2 A summary of deeper learning principles summarized from several sources is provided in the table on p. 29 of Carmean, Colleen and Jeremy Haefner. Nov/Dec 2002. “Mind over Matter: Transforming Course Management Systems into Effective Learning.” EDUCAUSE Review: 27-34. http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0261.pdf. 3 See the project Web site at University of California, Berkeley. Mellon Library/Faculty Fellowship for Undergraduate Research. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mellon/. 4 Berkeley’s Mellon Library/Faculty Fellowship for Undergraduate Research initiative produced two evaluative reports: one authored by an independent evaluation consultant (Ammon, Mary Sue. 2008. Evaluation Summary. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mellon/overview/2008_EvaluationReport_Mellon_Final.pdf.) and one authored by the librarian who served as the assessment consultant on the Implementation Teams (McDaniel, Sarah. 2008. Report on the Assessment of Student Learning. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mellon/overview/2008_AssessmentReport_Mellon_Final.pdf.) 5 For a richer discussion of the assignment consultancy process and examples of deliverables developed for the Mellon initiative see Gallagher, Kathleen. 2009. “From Guest Lecturer to Assignment Consultant: Exploring a New Role for the Teaching Librarian.” In Uncharted Waters: Tapping the Depths of Our Community to Enhance Learning. Ypsilanti, MI: LOEX Press. © 2009 Elizabeth Dupuis This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial- Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/. To cite this article: Elizabeth Dupuis. “Amplifying the Educational Role of Librarians.” Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 265 (August 2009): 9–14. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/rli/archive/rli265.shtml. RLI 265 14 Amplifying the Educational Role of Librarians ( C O N T I N U E D ) AUGUST 2009 RESEARCH LIBRARY ISSUES: A BIMONTHLY REPORT FROM ARL, CNI, AND SPARC