CIRSS

Sue Searing leads Seminar Series - How LIS Faculty Respond to Library Service Innovations: A Case Study

Date: April 1st, 4:00pm

Place: LISB 126

Title: How LIS Faculty Respond to Library Service Innovations: A Case Study

Session Leader: Sue Searing

Description: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign closed its Library & Information Science Library and replaced it with a virtual library and an embedded librarian. A year later, a survey of the faculty and staff of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) and the University Library assessed how well the new service model meets faculty needs. The data provide a snapshot of how LIS scholars discover and access new publications, how they seek reference assistance, and what they desire from the library. The survey also captured faculty attitudes toward the realignment of library support for their research and teaching.

Resources:

Background documents on the LIS library new service model are available here. See especially: Team implementation report (February 2009)

The librarian's library in transition from physical to virtual place