Abram, Stephen, 86

academic libraries

challenges, 82–4

connection with institutional

culture, 159

leadership, 61

partnerships and collaborations, 159

value in relation to undergraduate

colleges, 161

ACRL “Plan for Excellence, ”, 157

Augustana College

Thomas Tredway Library, xxiv

“back to basics, ”, 53

Center for Student Life, 60

lessons learned, 60

Baruch College

William and Anita Newman

Library, xxiii

credit courses, 25–6

graduate services graduatestudents

National Urban Fellows, 20–3

best practices, 21–3

point-of-need instruction, 24

Bennett, Scott, 53

Blackwell Book Services, xxi

book origins, xxi

Bronner, Simon J., 100

Carleton College

Athenaeum, 77–8

culture, 64, 66

curricular review, 74

Laurence McKinley Gould Library, xxv, 63–4

Northfield History Collaborative, 70

Champlain College

college history, 142–3

Robert E. and Holly D. Miller

Information Commons, xxviii

library history, 143

living with uncertainty, 153–4

strategic plan, 149–51

Collaboration, 68–72, 85–6, 103–5

Collection management, 38, 52, 55–7, 61, 143–5

weeding, 58–9

Community

building, 65

involvement, 70

Diversity, 135–7

Earlham College

Lily and Wildman Library, xxii

directors, 1–2

integration of librarians, 12

MISO survey results, 2–8

questioning excellence, 8–13

Elmhurst College

A.C. Buehler Library, xxvii

“First Year College Learning, ”, 101–2

Fishbowl, 102–3, 106

Gaming Night, 106, 109

“Great Chicago Libraries, ”, 107

information literacy tagging, 103

Webquests, 104

Environment, 60–1, 89–90, 106

Facilities, 50–1, 105–6

reference desk, 106

repurposing, 152

Faculty/librarian collaboration, 76, 91

Farber, Evan Ira, xxii, 1, 13, 55, 148–9

First-year

students, 73

programs, 101–5, 122

Graduate students at Baruch

Graduate Student Librarian (GSL), 16–18

history, 16–17

library Graduate Services Division, 16, 18

marketing and outreach, 19–20

Grinnell College

Burling Library, Kistle Science

Library, and the Music Library, xxvii

peer mentoring program, 130

student curation, 131–4

Wednesday Nights @ Burling, 134–5

college information, 128

Writing Fellows, 131

Hollins University

history, 86–7

Wyndham Robertson Library, xxvi

Faculty status for librarians, 92

“Rock the Stacks, ”, 95

undergraduate research award, 96

information literacy, 74–7, 100–1, 145–8

qualitative literacy, 76

tagging, 103

innovation, 66, 114–19, 151–2, 161

institutional partnerships, 65

intangible assets, 9–10

intelligent failure, 118–19, 152

Jenkins, Paul, 83–4

Kirk, Jr., Thomas G., 2, 148

Kostagiolas, Petros and Asonitis, Stefanos, “Utilizing Intangible Assets in the Worlds of Production, ”, 2, 9–10

Kuhlthau, Carol, 153

leadership, 61, 66

librarianship

campus governance, 11–12, 112–13

definition, 160

faculty status, 92, 109–14

liaising, 38–40, 109–10

roles, 10, 111, 160

paraprofessional staff at Elmhurst, 113–14

pod structure at Mount Holyoke, 40–5

scholarship, 76–7

strategic planning, 149–51

teaching and learning, 11, 72–8, 88, 91

credit courses, 11, 25–6

user-centered, 85–6

library-as-place, 54

Massy, William, 84

mentoring, 107, 120–3

Merged Information Services Outcomes (MISO) Survey, 2–3

Mount Holyoke College

history, 30

technology support vs. library support, 31–3 See also (technology)

Williston & Miles-Smith Library, xxiv

“Ask LITS” board, 29

Boiselle, Juliet Habjan, 32

Fliss, Susan, 32

merging library liaison roles, 36–40

merging technology services, 33–6

staffing “pods, ”, 40–5

ethnography, 44

multimedia, 41

reference services, 42

student staffing, 43

Oakleaf, Megan, Value of AcademicLibraries, 2, 9–10, 157

Oberlin Group, The, 72

organizational culture, 100, 115

outreach, 72

partnerships, 68–72, 89–94

policies, 60

programming, 94, 134–7

Ranganathan, S.R., 53

senior capstone projects, 75

shared resources, 68–9

Soth, Lauren, 78–9

St. Olaf College, 68

staff

collaboration, 60, 65

development, 67–8

efficacy, 160

engagement, 160

partnerships, 69

staffing choices, 67

student

-centered, 87, 158

engagement, 83, 93, 105, 128–30, 131–4

learning, 158

Millennials, 88

needs, 75–6

partnerships, 89–90, 137–8

peer mentoring, 130

workers, 131

Technology

at Baruch, 21

at Elmhurst, 116–19

at Mount Holyoke, 33–4

integration with library services, 71

“third place, ”, 54, 159

Travis, Tiffany, 101

undergraduate colleges, 162

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