LCSH: Liaisons'Collection of Stuff that Helps!

The Vision Thing

• Top ten assumptions for the future of academic libraries

Library Instruction/Info Literacy

• ACRL Information Literacy Toolkit
• ALA/ACRL:  Information Literacy Competencies 
• ALA/ACRL: Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology (DRAFT)
• Alternatives to the Research Paper (UT-Austin)
• Fenwick Library Research Record
• Information Literacy in the Disciplines
• Library Instruction Lesson Plans
• Preparing to Teach the Large Lecture Course
• Tips & Techniques for Library Instruction (UT-Austin)
• Using technology in teaching and learning: Resources to help you navigate a digital world
• Fenwick SiteSeeing Powerpoint

Marketing & Outreach

• Supporting Faculty/Librarian Collaboration in the Development of Internet Resources 
• Donuts & Databases
• The Must List: Lattes, magnets, and six other ways to connect with your users
• Portland State University. Selected Sources on Librarian/Faculty Collaboration.
• University of Massachusetts. Collaborating with Faculty: Ideas and Selected Bibliography
• Holtze, Terri. 100 Ways to Reach Your Faculty

• Mason Faculty
  • New Mason Liaison Librarian: Sample Letter of Librarian Introduction to Faculty Member
  • New Mason Faculty: Sample Letter of Librarian Introduction to New Faculty Member

• Information Audits
  • Knowledge Management: Information Audit Basics
  • The Information Audit as a First Step towards Effective Knowledge Management: An Opportunity for the Special Librarian
  • The Information Audit as a First Step Towards Effective Knowledge Management

Readers' Guide

• Liaison and Outreach in the Electronic Environment
• Educating the Net Generation
• Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space
• E-resources for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences - A British Academy Policy Review: "Information and communications technology is having a major impact in the form of, and access to, research resources. The Academy has consulted national and representative bodies, and individual researchers, and has examined the technical and organisational issues of e-resource provision and access. Its survey and analysis leads to a series of recommendations addressed to institutions and to individual researchers."
• Collaborative Instruction by Writing and Library Faculty: A Two-Tiered Approach to the Teaching of Scientific Writing
• Competencies for Online Teaching
• Lynch, Clifford. Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age.
• Informed and Underinformed Librarians
• The role of libraries in the information society
• Transformation of a Scholarly Society Publishing Program
• A Profile of the American High School Senior in 2004: A First Look. Initial Results From the First Follow-up of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002
• On Library Card Catalogs, OPACs, The Perfect Search & Teaching Searchers
• Kezar, Adrianna and Peter D. Eckel. "The Effect of Institutional Culture on Change Strategies in Higher Education." The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 73, No. 4, July/August 2002, pp. 435-460.73.4kezar.pdf
• Deiss, Kathryn J. "Innovation and Strategy: Risk and Choice in Shaping User-Centered Libraries." Library Trends, Vol. 53, Number 1, Summer 2004, pp. 17-32. deiss.pdf
• Hazen, Dan. "Twilight of the Gods? Bibliographers in the Electronic Age." Library Trends, Vol. 48, No. 4, Spring 2000, pp. 821-841.hazen.pdf

Vendor Resources

• EBSCOHost User guides, research guides
• EBSCOHost Flash Tutorials
• Proquest Library Advocacy Resources

Guidelines & Competencies

• Guidelines for Liaison Work in Managing Collections and Services. Prepared by the Liaison with Users Committee, Collection Development and Evaluation Section, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 1992, revised 2001. Approved by the RUSA Board of Directors, June 2001.
• Professional Competencies for Reference and User Services Librarians. Written by the RUSA Task Force on Professional Competencies, chair, Jo Bell Whitlatch and members, Nancy E. Bodner, Muzette Z. Diefenthal, Nancy Huling and Kathleen M. Kluegel. Approved by the RUSA Board of Directors, January 26, 2003.
• Mason Liaison Librarians:  Competencies