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Session Time: 2:00- 3:00 PM
Librarians are experienced with working with a variety of different user groups across campus. This panel will highlight different collaboration strategies and share their experience partnering with students, faculty, and staff across campus. This panel will consist of two first year experience librarians, one who focuses on instruction with faculty and staff and the other focuses on building relationships across campus through outreach, and a learning and student engagement librarian whose focus is on outreach and engagement with students. We have all had both successful and challenging collaborations, which have led to learning opportunities for everyone. Each group has varying needs, ideas, and levels of engagement when it comes to collaboration. We will explore strategies, expectations, needs, and best practices with examples of successful and not so successful collaborations with each user group. In understanding the similarities and differences between groups, you can make the best game plan for growing, improving, and evolving partnerships. This panel will provide an opportunity to share, reflect, and discuss different perspectives and strategies in outreach. We encourage the audience to share their experiences and ask questions.
Speaker(s):
Jillian Eslami
Alex Mitchell
Chance "the Librarian" Medlin
Campus:
TAMU
Speaker Bio(s):
Jillian Eslami is a First Year Experience Librarian at Texas A&M University. Jillian helps our first year students learn about the Libraries' resources, services, spaces and places to help them become the most successful college students and have awesome experiences in and out of the Library. Her interests include all things FYE (First Year Experience), information literacy, and student success. When she is not being everyone's favorite FYE librarian, she likes to read books and snuggle with her puppies.
Alex Mitchell is a First Year Instruction Librarian at Texas A&M University where she focuses on instruction for first year students and working with the first year experience course. Her interests include information literacy instruction and outreach to first year students, exploring fantasy maps, and crafting.
Chance "the Librarian" Medlin is the Learning and Student Engagement Librarian at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. His professional areas of interest include critical librarianship, outreach and engagement, and instruction. He earned his Master of Information from Rutgers University and Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies from Texas A&M University. When he isn't teaching Aggies about library services and resources or wearing zany outreach outfits he enjoys listening to audiobooks on long walks while working on various fiber arts crafts.
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