ACRL International Perspectives on Academic and Research Libraries Discussion Group

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Charge: The International Perspectives on Academic and Research Libraries Discussion Group serves to promote awareness and discussion of the international, transnational, and global dimensions of issues critical to the future of academic and research libraries, to promote comparative study of academic library trends, issues, and operations, and to promote collaboration between academic and research librarians on issues benefiting from an international perspective.


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ACRL International Perspectives Discussion Group - Midwinter Notes

  • 1.  ACRL International Perspectives Discussion Group - Midwinter Notes

    Posted Mar 19, 2014 09:12 AM
    Thank you everyone who attended our DG meeting on Saturday, January 25th, 2014.  We had 23 people in attendance, our largest meeting to date!



    Below, please find my notes from the discussion.  A number of you requested slides, they are attached or linked to in the text below. 



    Thank you everyone for attending.  I hope to see you at Annual!



    Evviva

    ACRL International Perspectives DG Convener



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    ACRL International Perspectives Discussion Group

    Saturday, January 25th

    3 - 4pm

    MAR (Philadelphia Marriott Downtown) - Room 404

     

    Agenda

     

    ·      Introductions

    o   Evviva Weinraub – Convener

    ·      Presentations - 10 minutes each with time for Q&A

    o   Bonnie Smith, Assistant Program Director for HR - University of Florida

    §  Bonnie is hoping for feedback from colleagues on a potential research topic - International collaborative efforts in HR, management, and staff training. 

    ·      Awarded funding for a research project

    ·      What is it that’s been done in the last 5 years, what’s been done between associations, not institution to institution.  What areas are open for collaboration between institutions in terms of HR support. 

    ·      Year long project.  She’ll be visiting IFLA in 2014, and then writing an article on her findings, and perhaps some ideas on how we can move forward.

    ·      Your thoughts on benefits working more collaboratively and a broader perspective.  Pull together a small team of international collaborators.  She has some funding for help with the survey and the survey tool. 

    o   Subject ideas from Scandinavia – how do you keep consistency in your services when you have faculty going out on maternity/paternity leave. 

    o   ALA Annual - IRT preconference – train the trainer – cooperative training with libraries overseas



    o   Juleah A Swanson, Assistant Professor, Acquisitions Librarian for E-Resources - Ohio State & Jose O. Dias, Associate Professor, Ohio State

    §  Juleah spoke about the Ohio State University Libraries Global Crossroads program where students can engage with and discover global resources and services the Libraries offer. 


    ·      Getting stakeholders that using the space, using the LED screens, setting the iPads up, etc – funding was gotten through an internal grant.  They were able, once they had the funding, to be able to get that kind of check-mark seal of approval from admin, which got them more traction to get the project going.

    ·      International Office – not a real collaboration, but were given a heads up.  They are more likely to be able to partner with them in the future.  The library is more likely to have cross-collaborative outcomes.

    ·      Assessment – the assessment information received wasn’t terribly effective. 

    ·      In addition to the physical space – on your website – did you have any content rich information on different cultures. 

    ·      Focused on the internationally focused apps

    ·      Blog wasn’t really kept up.  Twitter hashtag, was easier to promote

    ·      Colleague Jose is taking a lot of the learning outcomes around the collection areas and promotes things within the library and around campus. 

    o   Paula Smith, Reference Librarian, Penn State, Abington

    §  Paula will speak about the Global Awareness Dialog Project, a series she created in collaboration with her campus' Coordinator of Global Programs to help educate faculty around internationalization of the campus. 

    ·      The library initiated the program – as Paula’s final project, she set the project up as part of her thesis. 

    ·      Asked for $30k for an internal grant.  They laughed, but gave her money for food - $200 - $300.  No honorarium, transportation, etc for speakers.

    ·      How did you decide that this was a topic – we decided we wanted to focus on educational systems – what was the background of those students – what’s the system like. 

    ·      Age range of international students seem to be parallel to the regular matriculated students.  The African panel skewed older.  Primarily African immigrant students, not “international” students

    ·      Before they do a session, the faculty are sent pre work, video, scholarly reading, and web sites.  They are given a folder when they arrive as well.  What they haven’t done, but are trying to do, is to create a page on the website. 

    ·      Peer-to-peer opportunities – no formal program in place, but some through the ESL program

    o   Li Fu, Head of Access & Outreach Services, University of San Diego      

    §  Li Fu will be speaking about her role as a liaison to international student groups on her campus

    ·      Outreach & Outlook International Perspective

    o   Partnership & Collaboration with non-academic units and teaching faculty

    o   Personalized & customized services

    §  Created cross-cultural Tea Time and culture exchange programming

    o   Working with HR on International Scholars Access

    o   LIB 101 class – Internationalization Curriculum – American students going abroad – part of the curriculum of elective classes. 

    o   Similar services for faculty coming from abroad

    §  Feedback about the session

    ·      More time at the end for open discussion

    ·      Li Fu suggested that perhaps parts of this discussion could be expanded into a larger day-long symposium.

    ·      Evviva mentioned that Laurie Bridges, a librarian at OSU Libraries participated in the OSU Faculty Global Community – a 5-part workshop to internationalize the curriculum at OSU. 10 faculty members were chosen. Each proposed a class to re-vamp. Laurie submitted the idea of creating a library guide. Over the five weeks she created the guide, along with feedback and input from the faculty participants. http://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/global