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Cultivating Partnerships/Realizing Diversity, Janice Simmons-Welburn, William C. Welburn

William C Welburn

Academic librarians should not only seek methods for continuous learning about an increasingly diverse college student body, they are encouraged to pursue partnerships with campus agencies that work directly with students, especially those charged with building a diverse community of students. The authors present two examples to illustrate strategies-in-action.

It's Just Plain Common(S) Sense: Grounding Space Planning In Evidence-Based Research, Melanie Mills

Melanie Mills

The Graduate Resource Centre (GRC) at The University of Western Ontario (Western) is a special library independently operated by the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS). Exclusively serving the communities of FIMS four graduate programs – Journalism, Media Studies, Library and Information Science and Popular Music and Culture – the GRC has a well-established and longstanding tradition of supporting teaching and learning excellence at FIMS. As Western’s youngest and fastest growing Faculty, FIMS quickly outgrew its existing space on campus. Plans to relocate the entire Faculty, including its in-house library and information centre, are now underway. The University has …

Approaches To Marketing An Institutional Repository To Campus, Marisa L. Ramirez, Michael D. Miller

Michael D. Miller

Marketing is an activity that is integral to the growth and use of a campusinstitutional repository (IR). But what kinds of marketing activitiesdo libraries engage in to advertise the new services associatedwith an IR? This chapter summarizes basic marketing principles and describesthe application of those principles as they relate to marketing an institutionalrepository within a higher education setting.

Partnering With Information Technology At The Reference Desk: A Model For Success, Jeffrey A. Franks

Jeffrey A Franks

Session Control Software, Jeffrey A. Franks

Jeffrey A Franks