Excellence in the Stacks: Strategies, Practices and Reflections of Award-Winning Libraries - Jacob Hill

Résumé :
Excellence in the Stacks details the philosophies, practices and innovations of award-winning libraries over the last ten years.

Biographie:
Jacob Hill is the reference and instruction librarian for the award-winning A.C. Buehler Library at Elmhurst College. He has recently presented and published content on plagiarism-detection software, mobile resource access, and reference desk communication applications. Jacob is currently investigating college/secondary education liaison program partnerships. Susan Swords Steffen is the director of the library at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois. With over 30 years of experience in college libraries, she has spoken and written extensively about library innovation and has taught at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University as an adjunct faculty member.

Sommaire:
Measuring the excellence of librarianship at Earlham College; Graduate services at the Newman Library; The evolving liaison model at Mount Holyoke College; Fast-forward: The transformation of excellence; In unison with our communities and with each other: Striving for excellence in college librarianship; Looking outward: Partnerships and outreach at Hollins University; The A.C. Buehler Library at Elmhurst College: Handcrafted academic library services; Success through community: Engagement at Grinnell College Libraries; Excellence at Champlain: Spending Groundhog Day in the Kuhlthau model; Afterword: Academic library value and the college library.