1. Courting Serendipity: A Path to Collaborating With Your Faculty
ENY/ACRL spring Conference
May 23, 2016
John A. Cosgrove
Access Services & Humanities Librarian
Lucy Scribner Library, Skidmore College

2. “Collaboration between teaching faculty and librarians is fundamental to information literacy.”
“Collaboration & Advocacy” (from ACRL’s “Information Literacy Resources”)

3. “DH [Digital Humanities] invites—and demands—collaboration with parties outside of the library”
ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit on Digital Humanities
Last updated September 16, 2015 by Steven R. Harris.

4. Vivid description of The Desired outcome: “ACRL members are recognized as essential partners in learning and scholarship with faculty and other colleagues.”
Charting Our Future: ACRL Strategic Plan 2020
Revised by the ACRL Board of Directors January 5, 2009

6. “luck is the point where preparation meets opportunity.”
The Youth’s Companion, Volume 86, 1912, page 222, Fact and Comment.
Often incorrectly attributed to Seneca the Younger.