Innovating Outreach: Involving Collection Management in Outreach at an Academic Library

Initial research suggests that most work done in community outreach by academic libraries is access services focused, often through partnerships with K-12 schools and public libraries. These efforts have been proven to build networks between universities and community members. However, little has been written about how technical services departments can contribute to community outreach or relationship building.

This webinar discusses how outreach beyond the academic community via a technical services department’s collection development activities can be beneficial to both university libraries and to the partners it has in the community including several concrete examples of how the Loyola University Chicago Libraries have begun such efforts over the last few years. 

For more information about this event including speaker bio, visit the ILA event page. 

All ILA Noon Network webinars are free. The webinar recordings are available to ILA personal members shortly after the webinars. Registration for all live webinars is limited to Illinois libraries.

Questions? Conatct Tamara Jenkins, tjenkins@ila.org.