Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Supporting Community Transformation: Becoming A Community-Engaged Academic Library, Patrick Griffis

Library Faculty Presentations

• Community engagement and service as third mission
• Targeting who to engage in community
• Community organization needs
• Academic library community services
• Benefits of community engagement
• Challenges of community engagement
• Supporting infrastructure
• Community engagement strategies
• Supporting community engagement initiatives of academic institution
• Co-curricular experiential learning community projects
• Service learning courses
• Small business development centers
• Developing academic library community outreach initiatives
• Going out to the community
• Bringing the community in the library
• Business by the book workshop series
• Following up & closing the loop
• Communicating the value of community engagement initiatives

Promoting Public Outreach And Awareness For Unlv Special Collections, Tom D. Sommer

Library Faculty Presentations

Promoting public outreach and awareness for UNLV Special Collections has evolved for me for the past six years as University Archivist. It started out as an idea that quickly grew into a wonderful partnership between UNLV and the local community. I originally promoted outreach as a librarian in Oro Valley, Arizona. It was a nice way for the organization to get the word out about the new library in the neighborhood. I started by reading novels to kids in Summer Camps at the nearby middle and high schools. It was a lot of fun and I was asked to come …