Library Services - Academic Liaison Team
Information
The Academic Liaison Team works in partnership with staff and students in Schools and Faculties to ensure that the library stock meets the needs of the QM community. The team consists of three Liaison Librarians, four Assistant Librarians and a Cataloguers. The team is headed by the Academic Liaison Services Manager.
The Liaison Librarians each have designated subject areas for which they are responsible and they liaise with academic staff about the library resource needs of new and existing courses and research in the Faculties. Liaison Librarians attend course, school and faculty committees.
The Library Web pages are used to organise and manage a range of relevant electronic materials for use by QM staff and students as well as provide information about the Library and its services.
The Library at QM is currently developing training materials in order to enable students to navigate the growing range of information available in print and electronic format.
The Liaison Librarians are developing a series of generic information handling skills resources, which can be used interchangeably by the librarians, as well as independently by staff and students.
A series of tutorials have already been developed as narrated presentations. These can be accessed from the Study Skills page on the Library Web site. Contact your Liaison Librarian if you would like to tailor these for your specific courses and students.
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What your Liaison Librarian can do for you
- Invite new staff to an introduction to the Library and library resources –see contact details.
- Help with the preparation of reading lists. Reading lists can also be made available to students on the Library’s online catalogue. To see lists already available in this way go to Library catalogue and click on the link for Reading Lists. Links to resources in the library catalogue can also be created from within WebCT modules and other web pages – ask your Liaison Librarian for more information.
- Lead information skills sessions for your students - speak to your Liaison Librarian.
- Advise on the management and development of stock in your subject areas.
Inform you about new publications and of ways to keep up-to-date via the Library database subscriptions.
- Keep you up-to-date with the resources available in your subject area.
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What you can do for us
- Inform us of new courses and their resource needs at the earliest opportunity.
- Inform us in advance of any developments or changes in module/course delivery.
- Send the library copies of your reading lists so that we can be sure the books are in the library in sufficient numbers and with the appropriate loan periods, e.g. Short Loan (4-HOUR loan), 7-DAY or 21-DAY loan.
- Identify books for the Short Loan Collection as soon as possible and in advance of modules starting.
- Let us know of your research interests.
For more information contact your Liaison Librarian - see contact information below.
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