LIBRARY LIAISON PROGRAM

The Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library offers a liaison service for the departments and programs within the Health Sciences Division. The purpose of this service is to provide an educational link between the library and the Division’s programs by establishing an ongoing partnership with teaching faculty. Liaisons can visit the department to share current information regarding library programs, resources, and services and can discuss faculty needs by email or phone.

Faculty are invited to contact liaisons about library collections and services, existing resources in your field, and procedures for requesting materials for the library to support teaching, clinical and research needs. Library Liaisons

The Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library Liaisons can do the following for you:

• Update you on new library resources and services
• Advise you on the effective use of library databases
• Design library orientations and classes for you and your students
• Collaborate with you to integrate library research skills into the curriculum
• Encourage your recommendations for new books, journals, databases, and other information resources (print and electronic)
• Consult with you on effective database selection and searching
• Provide information services to support your research
  

Liaison New Directions

• Work with department, program, or division administrators to insure information literacy is fully incorporated into the program curriculum
• Establish a teaching partnership with a member of the liaison departments or programs
• Teach a course or a course component in the liaison departments or programs
• Establish a research partnership with a member of the liaison departments or programs
• Develop or help develop an interactive learning module in the liaison area
• Develop or help develop a program that promotes active student centered learning
• Build new library modules that can be used by First Year Experience or any other graduate program
• Work with other campus units to establish new Information Literacy learning components
• Develop surveys to measure needs of remote and non-residential students and faculty

MEET THE LIBRARY LIAISONS