1. StFX Business Administration Librarian in Residence Service APLA 2014 – Ignite session June 5, 2014
Rita Campbell
Business Administration Liaison Librarian
St. Francis Xavier University

2. Oh, no! I don’t even know what I would ask a librarian
Faculty and students rarely consulted librarian.
Prev. dean had negotiated for a database instead.
Book budget near zero.
Communication usually about collection not services.
Library without deep understanding of the dept.

3. Gerald Schwartz School of Business
Building newly renovated in 2010 for School of Business

4. Librarian in Residence
Pilot 2010/11
(Suzanne van den Hoogen)
Reference service
2 hours/week
Total 50 hours
Office on faculty floor
Disconnected from business liaison librarian
2011/12
(Rita Campbell)
Full liaison service
One day per week
Total 200 hours
office on same floor as Faculty
Liaison Librarian is Librarian in residence

5. Mutual Learning
Image: Moini. (2011, March 1). Dancing Penguins [Image]. Retrieved from

6. Schwartz School Librarian-in-residence office 2012+
Every Wednesday
Main floor of building
Classroom section
Students (not just business) walk by to go to class
Signs - allowed only in office
Quiet in between classes
Not on a normal route for faculty

7. Attracting attention
Students often comment that they like the permission to “interrupt”.

8. Attracting attention
Notice on Schwartz School CCTV

9. Stressing multiple contact options

10. Attracting attention
Librarian trading cards

11. What didn’t work so well.
Lightning talks
- a series of short sessions to introduce students to the library resources
Very low student attendance.
Library quest
A short “quest” distributed in class with trading card to all 1st year business students. Small prizes and a grade mark if they introduced themselves to the librarian.
Only 12 of 250 students participated
Bulletin boards
Posting on the various bulletin boards within the Schwartz School.
There was too much competition and no room on the boards.

12. Cooperative resource development More relevant subject guides
What’s working?
Cooperative resource development
Faculty referrals
In Class
More relevant subject guides
Student referrals

13. Collaboration with professor based on his class notes
Business 101
Collaboration with professor based on his class notes

14. Course specific
& relevant

15. Subject guide usage Most viewed pages Subject Guide Home page 6,413
BSAD101
2,491
Articles
1,364
Accounting
1,236
Writing & Citing
1,070
APA for Business Sources
346

16. Schwartz School Office: 78
IN PERSON
VISITS
PER OFFICE
CONVENIENCE
MATTERS
Schwartz School Office: 78
Library Office: 36

17. 7
2009/10
Number of business students who asked liaison librarian for help

18. 2013/14 in black
2012/13 in red
(3)
(14)
(84)
(22)

19. Research Skills Toolkit for Business Students
March 21, 2014, 9:30 – 2:30
Topics covered
◈ How to develop a search strategy
◈ Conducting a literature review
◈ Evaluating sources
◈ Finding scholarly research articles
◈ Crediting your sources to avoid plagiarism, using APA
◈ Using RefWorks through your research process to gather, organize, and cite your sources
◈ Write-n-cite
◈ Where to find demographics, statistics and consumer behavior research
3rd year students – thesis research preparation
Modeled on Research Toolkit for Research Assistants 2013, Suzanne van den Hoogen

20. Everything old is new again!
1960’s – 1980’s
multiple campus libraries
near academic departments
staffed & physical collections
Biology
Home economics
Science (Physics/Chemistry/Engineering)
Geology
2000+
multiple librarians-in-residence
near academic departments
electronic collections
Business
Nursing
Education
Images: 1. Moini. (2014, March 1). March calendar page: All booked out[Image]. Retrieved from Moini. (2011, May 2). Migrating penguin[Image]. Retrieved from