LES Blog

ACRL has accepted LES’s proposal to create about 3-6 minutes of video for broadcasting on YouTube, blogs, and whatever other venues might be appropriate. The video would consist of interviews of English department faculty in various institutions all answering the same question(s) about how they partner with their liaison librarian. We envision the end result to be fun and upbeat and to appeal to the targeted audiences: teaching faculty, administrators, current and future literature librarians, etc. The proposal, including the executive summary, a projected schedule, and budget, is attached here: ACRL Proposal.

We now need to form a team of people to see this project – working title “Focus on Literature Librarians” — through. Experience with video production is welcome but not necessary; the budget allows for professional editing and videographers. Creativity and enthusiasm are the most important qualifications.

If this project appeals to you please look over the proposal and then contact Liorah Golomb. Let her know if you have prior experience in video or filmmaking and whether you would be interested in being the team leader.

Congratulations to Liorah on this approved proposal!

I just had an article published in the Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarinship (E-JASL) on a faculty author series that has been in operation at my library since 2005. Started by the humanities librarians to provide a forum for research by Arts & Humanities faculty members, the series, Speaking of Books… Conversations with Campus Authors, has grown to include speakers from many different departments. Most importantly, it’s provided an opportunity to promote the library as a place of learning, not just a warehouse for books and computers.

I don’t want to rehash the details since you can read them in the article, but I was interested to know if others have done similar events/series at their libraries. If so, what was your experience? Did you have difficulty finding faculty participants or attracting audiences? Did you need to convince your administration to sponsor such events? If so, how did you do it? What has been the response from your faculty and from the campus?