Library Instruction: Librarian Liaisons

The purpose of the Arnold Bernhard Library’s liaison program at Quinnipiac University is to foster dialogue and collaboration between faculty and librarians regarding library services, resources, and other library related issues. The program’s goal is to ensure that the library supports and actively advances the University’s academic mission and curriculum by providing excellence in instruction, research assistance, collection access, and public services.

The ABL will work towards this goal by appointing a librarian to partner with each academic department on campus. Liaisons and their academic departments will explore and develop traditional and innovative strategies that integrate library services and sources into teaching, learning, and research. In reaching this end, liaisons will:

• Work with faculty to build a long-term, strategic relationship that advances the University’s mission and curriculum and prepares students for life-long learning
• Serve as the point of contact for their assigned department and act as the intermediary between faculty and library staff with pertinent duties
• Partner with faculty to engage in teaching and learning and to prepare students to become information literate individuals by offering course-specific instructional sessions, discipline or course-based pathfinders and research guides, and other instructional materials as necessary
• Communicate with faculty regarding specific course assignments that require library reference services, resources, and research
• Identify gaps in the collection, examine recent and cutting edge scholarship, and consider other resources for inclusion in the collection that will augment teaching, learning, and expand the potential for research