1. Collaborating on Course
Guides and more…
Necia Wolff
Associate Professor,
Business & Distance Learning Librarian
Louis J. Blume Library

2.  Classroom faculty “bring an
understanding of the strengths,
weakness, attitudes, and interests of the
students, and of the content being
taught.”
 Librarians offer a deep “knowledge of
information skills and methods to
integrate them into the course,
pedagogical knowledge for teaching
these skills and an understanding of
student’s frustrations with the research
process.”
Thinking about Collaboration
Quoted from Assoc. of College & Research Library’s
(ACRL) Information Literacy page on Collaboration

3. Faculty
 Get assistance
designing
assignments
involving research
sources and
information literacy
concepts
 Build a better library
collection from
increased
communication
 Rely on librarian’s
information seeking
expertise
Students
 Gain
understanding of
how information is
relevant to them
 Develop critical
thinking skills to
evaluate sources
 Do better work
and learning
expectations
raised
Collaboration Benefits
Adapted from Texas State University page on Library-Faculty Collaboration Benefits
Librarians
 Better able to
help students with
assignments
 Build closer
connections with
students
 Gain closer
relationship with
classroom faculty,
build mutual
understanding

4. Spectrum of Possibility
Inform
liaison
librarian of
research
assignment
Request
library
research
session
for your
course
Co-Author
a course
research
guide for
research
session
Co-Design
multiple
research
sessions
Partner
on curriculum
design,
teaching, an
article or
grant
proposal
Communication >> Cooperation >> Collaboration

5. At St. Mary’s
 Catholic Social
Teaching
 Greehey Scholars
 Many course
guides that
supported an in-
class, hands-on
research session
Course Guide Examples

6.  Brainstorm ideas for collaborative
projects
 Examine options in library’s LibGuides
platform
 Embed library content in Blackboard
◦ Course guides and contact the librarian
widgets
◦ Track usage of course guides
Afternoon Session

7. I look forward to talking with you
more this afternoon
or
at some other point in the future.
Thank you