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Information Workers In The Academy: The Case Of Librarians And Archivists At The University Of Western Ontario, Melanie Mills
Information Workers In The Academy: The Case Of Librarians And Archivists At The University Of Western Ontario, Melanie Mills
Melanie Mills
For much of its history, the organizational culture for academic librarians and archivists at The University of Western Ontario was primarily a culture of the practitioner. While librarians and archivists supported teaching, research and service at Western, they did not directly engage in it. As a result of grassroots efforts undertaken by members of Western’s academic community in the mid-2000s however, the potential contributions of information workers to the teaching, research and service mandate of University began to garner recognition. Born out of this collective awakening, a successful union drive and shortly thereafter an inaugural Collective Agreement for The University …
Combining Forces On Campus: The Four C'S Of Faculty Liaison, Melanie Mills, Elizabeth Marshall
Combining Forces On Campus: The Four C'S Of Faculty Liaison, Melanie Mills, Elizabeth Marshall
Melanie Mills
Now, more than ever, academic librarians across Ontario are expected to connect, collaborate, create and cooperate with faculty on their campuses. Learn how librarians at The University of Western Ontario (The D.B. Weldon Library) are building campus connections with faculty in the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences by putting into practice The Four C’s.
Don't Worry Mom, I'M At The Library: Making Connections With Undergraduate Students, Melanie Mills, Jennifer Robinson, Marisa Mitchell
Don't Worry Mom, I'M At The Library: Making Connections With Undergraduate Students, Melanie Mills, Jennifer Robinson, Marisa Mitchell
Melanie Mills
For the past three years Western Libraries has introduced our services, collections and facilities to students via a welcome tent erected during orientation week. A great deal of planning goes into creating interactive and meaningful orientation displays that will capture attention and educate students about the role of the academic library as a physical and a virtual space!
It's Just Plain Common(S) Sense: Grounding Space Planning In Evidence-Based Research, Melanie Mills
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 …
It Takes A Village To Raise A Tent: A Case Study In Pitching The Academic Library To Incoming Undergraduate Students, Melanie Mills, Marisa Mitchell
It Takes A Village To Raise A Tent: A Case Study In Pitching The Academic Library To Incoming Undergraduate Students, Melanie Mills, Marisa Mitchell
Melanie Mills
Rather than continuing to pursue formal inclusion in the University of Western Ontario’s O-Week program, Western Libraries shifted its approach to library orientation for incoming undergraduate students by launching its very own orientation campaign in the fall of 2005. The following article details the planning process and subsequent launch of Western Libraries inaugural system-wide library orientation initiative, whose aim was to position Western Libraries strategically as a key contributor to ‘the best student experience’ at Western. The overall impact of the campaign, as well as its influence on future orientation initiatives at the University of Western Ontario are also considered …
Library Sector Leadership: Bridging Theory And Practice, Melanie Mills, Charlotte Innerd
Library Sector Leadership: Bridging Theory And Practice, Melanie Mills, Charlotte Innerd
Melanie Mills
Explore the issue of leadership in libraries with one current student and one graduate of The University of Victoria's Professional Graduate Certificate in Library Sector Leadership. Looking specifically at Kouzes and Posner's 'Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders' and Quinn et al.'s 'Competing Values Framework', we hope to share our own discoveries and insights and add to the important discussion of leadership in Libraries.