Journal article
Personal connections: one library's history of personal librarian
Reference services review, v 49(1)
06 May 2021
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
Purpose
To describe how a personal librarian program at a large university developed, has evolved, and continues to function. This paper aims to assist other librarians in developing their own personal librarian programs. It will also assist librarians who are working to connect to students.
Design/methodology/approach
To produce this paper, internal documents were reviewed, existing data were investigated, those who assisted in the development of the program were consulted and literature on personal librarian programs was reviewed.
Findings
Personal librarian programs can be an efficient way to connect to students and can create awareness about library services, especially without a formal orientation for new students. The personal librarian program discussed here connects the library to a large number of students with little time and effort. Planning is important in developing a working program.
Practical implications
Librarians can use this article to understand how a personal librarians program functions and how it can benefit their libraries. The paper emphasizes revising an existing program to work more effectively and using planning documents and assessment to help an outreach program run smoothly.
Originality/value
This paper details how a personal librarian program was developed and has evolved as well as how the program functions. The value is in the ways in which the program has been revised and has evolved and in the role that planning has taken in creating an effective program.
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Details
- Title
- Personal connections: one library's history of personal librarian
- Creators
- Elise Ferer - Drexel Univ Lib, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USAElizabeth T Ferer - Drexel University Libraries
- Publication Details
- Reference services review, v 49(1)
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing
- Number of pages
- 12
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- DUL Connections
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000616383400001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85100582285
- Other Identifier
- 991019174579604721
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- Information Science & Library Science