Meeting Our Users Where They Conference: A Texas A&M Model to Support Librarian Attendance at Subject-Specific Conferences
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2009-04-01
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Public Services Quarterly
Abstract
Today’s academic librarian is frequently called upon to function as
a subject specialist, with or without advanced degrees in other disciplines.
One method of monitoring trends within a given field is to
study its literature; another is to attend conferences in the discipline.
Discipline-specific conference attendance by academic librarians
provides opportunities to interact with faculty in their disciplines
that result in an increased communication with faculty, improved
reference expertise, and more focused collection development. This
paper describes the Texas A&M University Libraries’ support for
conference attendance and examples of the resulting benefits.
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Copyright Holder, 2009: This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of 'Copyright Holder' for personal use, not for redistribution.
The definitive version was published in Public Services Quarterly, Volume 5 Issue 2, April 2009.
doi:10.1080/15228950902837541 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15228950902837541)
Keywords
subject-specific conferences, academic librarians, collection, tenure
Citation
Hankins, Rebecca, Melgoza, Pauline, Seeger, Christina and Wan, Gary(2009)'Meeting Our Users Where They Conference: A Texas A&M Model to Support Librarian Attendance at Subject-Specific Conferences',Public Services Quarterly,5:2,98 — 113