| IT and Library Collaboration: a Road
to Better Service |
Library resources have made a major shift in recent years to electronic
formats. With this shift library reading and reference rooms have come to
look more like computer labs and librarians are spending more and more time
providing technology training and troubleshooting. Although librarians and
IT personnel each have many responsibilities that are not easily
transferable to the other, there is a growing common ground of user needs
that can be most efficiently and effectively met through collaboration. This
presentation will focus on how the IT and Library organizations at
Valparaiso University, though administratively separate, collaborate on
numerous levels to provide excellent services to their campus community. See
also how the construction of their new Christopher Center for Library and
Information Resources offers additional opportunities for merged functions,
more efficient use of resources, and more satisfied users.
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