Open AccessA Case Study in Collaboration: Assessing Academic Librarian/Faculty Partnerships
Author(s) -
Deborah B. Gaspar,
Karen Wetzel
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
college and research libraries/college and research libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.886
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 2150-6701
pISSN - 0010-0870
DOI - 10.5860/0700578
Subject(s) - general partnership , higher education , medical education , survey instrument , library instruction , perception , quality (philosophy) , psychology , library science , pedagogy , computer science , information literacy , political science , medicine , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , applied psychology , law
Undergraduates attending The George Washington University are required to take courses in the University Writing Program. When it was introduced in 2004, this innovative program institutionalized collaboration between librarians and writing professors. The program was designed to support the university’s strategic goal to enhance challenge, discovery, and quality in student education. Beginning in 2005, instruction librarians crafted a survey to elicit anonymous feedback from their faculty partners to measure the impact of the library partnership on student learning. The survey is administered annually to explore faculty perceptions and monitor trends. Responses to the survey identify significant strengths resulting from this collaboration as well as specific topics needing further attention.