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The Library Is For Everyone: Cultivating Campus Partnerships To Enhance Library Accessibility, Jenna Riley, Benjamin Peck, Eugenia Opuda, Kristin P. Dhabolt, Barbara Morris
The Library Is For Everyone: Cultivating Campus Partnerships To Enhance Library Accessibility, Jenna Riley, Benjamin Peck, Eugenia Opuda, Kristin P. Dhabolt, Barbara Morris
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This poster was presented at the ACRL NEC conference on May 6, 2019. The Accessibility Team, part of the Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee at the University of New Hampshire Library, shared strategies and methods for establishing campus partnerships to enhance library space accessibility. They presented ideas about fostering outreach to campus partners, methods to assess their own physical library spaces, and strategies for collecting formal and informal data about library accessibility.
Working Together: A Literature Review Of Campus Information Technology Partnerships, Eleta Exline
Working Together: A Literature Review Of Campus Information Technology Partnerships, Eleta Exline
University Library Scholarship
This article reviews the recent literature about the essential but often uneasy alliances made between content experts (archivists and librarians) and technology experts. Differing professional cultures, misunderstandings of one another, limited abilities to envision change, and lack of support from top-level administrators are the most often cited reasons for the persistent difficulty in working together. Failure to collaborate may result in the marginalization or exclusion of content experts from projects where their professional skills are most needed. In spite of these problems, successful models for working together do exist. True collaborations are mutually beneficial, open opportunities for continuing relationships, and …