We Are Partners! - Connecting Through Collaboration and Engagement with Communities at SMU Libraries
Session Number
8
Keywords
engagement, collaboration, community, faculty, academic libraries
Description
Increasingly today, libraries are competing for attention in the digital world and need to demonstrate their value to their communities. Singapore Management University Libraries (SMU Libraries) proactively initiate, engage, and collaborate with its internal and external communities and expand easy access to relevant, responsive resources that furthers the needs of the SMU community. These initiatives are aligned with the university’s strategies of integration, industry, innovation, and internationalization. Research librarians at SMU Libraries too, are re-inventing themselves by working closely with their faculty, students, and the external community to make significant impact on the quality of research, teaching, and learning. They are also exploring and integrating digital tools and technologies into the research and teaching support to transform the collaboration and engagement amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Research librarians play an important connector role to bridge knowledge, university, society, and other stakeholders to leverage their strengths and resources for the collective good of the communities.
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We Are Partners! - Connecting Through Collaboration and Engagement with Communities at SMU Libraries
Increasingly today, libraries are competing for attention in the digital world and need to demonstrate their value to their communities. Singapore Management University Libraries (SMU Libraries) proactively initiate, engage, and collaborate with its internal and external communities and expand easy access to relevant, responsive resources that furthers the needs of the SMU community. These initiatives are aligned with the university’s strategies of integration, industry, innovation, and internationalization. Research librarians at SMU Libraries too, are re-inventing themselves by working closely with their faculty, students, and the external community to make significant impact on the quality of research, teaching, and learning. They are also exploring and integrating digital tools and technologies into the research and teaching support to transform the collaboration and engagement amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Research librarians play an important connector role to bridge knowledge, university, society, and other stakeholders to leverage their strengths and resources for the collective good of the communities.