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Librarian

Silviu Serban
BEng, BA, MLIS

4/11/2009

Table of contents

Context: Allyn and Betty Taylor Library Academic Librarians Perceptions of Power Genre in Information Studies Users
Faculty & Researchers Students Librarians

Conclusion

Context: Allyn and BettyTaylor Library

Western [Ontario University] provides the best student experience among Canadas leading research-intensive universities.1 WLs mission is to nurture and anticipate students best experience within the academic coordinates of library-as-place and place-as-library.2
Example: An information literacy program [has been created] for engineering, health and science grad students.3 Example: The new catalog interface and Scholarship@Western are launched in 2009
(Instruction and Outreach Database--more details?)

WL build partnership with Teaching Support Centre, Instructional Technology Resource Centre, Research@Western, and other communities.

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abtaylorlib.jpg

Academic Librarians Perceptions of Power

Faculty & Researchers

Students

Librarians

Genre in Information Studies

* Typified rhetorical actions

*Transient taxonomies

*Information literacy

Faculty&Researchers

Challenges
What is your real value? Science & engineering are too complicated

Opportunities
Match status; build support Understand the genre

Image: http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/5311459/2/istockphoto_5311459-science-professor.jpg

Students

Challenges
Do they care? Do we know them? Whats the next service, please?

Opportunities
Plan, experiment, test, plan,...,, and succeed!

Image cellphone: http://undergraduatesciencelibrarian.files.wordpress.com/ 2009/07/emulatordotmobi_12483584941791.png?w=244&h=300

Image:http://www.sci.waseda.ac.jp/english/department/images/in_img01.jpg

Librarians

Challenges
Where are the experts? Speak the administrators language Are you boxed in by genre?

Opportunities
Become an expert Succeed incrementally, measurably Share stories

Allyn & Betty Taylor Library: http://www.lib.uwo.ca/files/taylor/images/MainWelcome1aOWeek2009.jpg

Image D.B. Weldon Library: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/328790482_063c00637d.jpg

Conclusion

To communicate efficiently, integrate into the discourse communities you want to service:
be part of their genre strive to match status

To obtain ongoing support in your communication, succeed measurably, and make that always known

End notes
1. University of Western Ontario. (2008). Mission Statement. Retrieved October 23, 2009, from http://www.lib.uwo.ca/files/aboutwl/StrategicPlanSummary080904.pdf 2.Western Libraries. University of Western Ontario. (2008). Strategic plan. Retrieved October 22, 2009, from http://www.lib.uwo.ca/files/aboutwl/StrategicPlanSummary080904.pdf 3. Association of Research Libraries. (2008). Research library virtual resources & instructional initiatives: comnplete 2008 ARL survey results. Retrieved October 23, 2009, from http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/vriicompletesurvey.pdf

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