Research Catalog

Title

Convergence and collaboration of campus information services / edited by Peter Hernon and Ronald R. Powell.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Hernon, Peter.
• Powell, Ronald R.

Description

xii, 240 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Convergence and collaboration enable an academic library to be more fully engaged with its campus. In its simplest form, convergence is defined as joint activities of a campus's units to further their shared mission of supporting teaching, learning, and inquiry. Convergence, which involves collaboration in both organizational structures and service delivery, leads to users benefiting from contact with individuals who have relevant expertise. Collaboration also may lead to convergence of collections, thereby enhancing library service to an institution's constituents." "Specific examples of convergence/collaboration include centers for teaching excellence, tutor and writing centers, information arcades, facilities for multi-media production and delivery, information and learning commons, cafes, photocopying centers; centers for distance education, participation in the use of course management software (e.g., Blackboard) to make library resources available to classes digitally and to make students more information literate, publishing (e.g., university presses and digital collections, including institutional repositories), counseling and career centers, and services for students for whom English is a secondary language (mostly in community colleges). For anyone interested in how academic libraries can be more closely tied to the various missions of the colleges/universities in which they reside."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Academic libraries > United States > Case studies
• Libraries and colleges

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-221) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Peter Hernon and Ronald R. Powell -- 2. Innovation Is an Ongoing Process: Collaboration at the University of California-Irvine / Carol Ann Hughes -- 3. Sowing an Old Field with a New Crop: Collaborative Services of Libraries and Other Campus Units / Richard W. Meyer and Tyler O. Walters -- 4. From Isolation to Engagement: Strategy, Structure, and Process / Barbara J. Krugel and Timothy F. Richards -- 5. Convergence and Collaboration in Information Services at the University of Calgary / Darlene Warren -- 6. The Library as Model of Integrated Student-centered Academic Support Enterprise / Jay Schafer and Anne C. Moore -- 7. The University of Georgia Student Learning Center / Florence E. King, Carla Wilson Buss, Nadine Cohen, Deborah Stanley and Elizabeth White -- 8. From Faction to Fusion: The Columbia University Libraries as Information Services Enterprise / James Neal -- 9. Libraries and Convergence at Yale / Alice Prochaska -- 10. The Poetry Center at Suffolk University / Fred Marchant and Robert E. Dugan -- 11. Collaborative Initiatives to Deliver Agricultural Information / Barbara S. Hutchinson, Jeanne L. Pfander and George B. Ruyle -- 12. Other Perspectives and Concluding Thoughts / Peter Hernon, Ronald R. Powell and Amy F. Fyn.

ISBN

• 9781591586036 (alk. paper)
• 1591586038 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008029356
• 99931874548

OCLC

• ocn230192125
• 230192125
• SCSB-5444921

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries