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Job Searches In Liaison Departments: Opportunities For Outreach And Inreach, John Glover

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Liaison librarians are uniquely positioned to provide a library introduction to job candidates in their liaison departments. This outreach identifies important resources that might attract candidates, showcases the library to them and to liaison departments, and helps to solidify a library or library system's suite of offerings to a discipline.

Creating A Sustainable Graduate Student Workshop Series, Bettina Peacemaker, Martha Roseberry

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

Purpose - This paper reports on librarians’ experience creating and sustaining a workshop and webinar series for graduate students over the course of four years.

Design/methodology/approach - Difficulties hosting and promoting stand-alone graduate workshops and a collaborative method for planning workshop days and webinars are described in this case study. Attendance data were collected and recorded for each event and additional quantitative data were collected via registration forms and post-event surveys.

Findings - Working collaboratively as a department eased planning and promotional responsibilities, allowing for a sustainable workshops series. Focusing on a limited number of events per semester and developing …