2. April 2009

3.  Successful  Fragmented  Not much communication  No cross contamination  Not much mentoring

4.  Five designated liaisons ◦ Senior person - 5 years experience ◦ Newest - 4 months experience ◦ Six additional librarians on staff  Some with liaison responsibilities  My Plan

5. June 2009

6. Kathryn Skhal 1976-2009

7.  This is what we realized ◦ Don’t know what we are working on ◦ Realized that we are all too isolated ◦ Lack of communication and sharing

8.  What we did to make us a team ◦ Established standard training curriculums  PubMed, CINAHL, RefWorks, etc  Guidelines  Specific examples ◦ Handouts ◦ Class curriculums

9.  What we did to make us a team ◦ Hard Open Workshops

11.  What we did to make us a team ◦ Cross contamination  Committees outside liaison duties  Team teaching  Collaboration ◦ Shared Experiences  Environmental scan  Informal UI Liaison meetings

12.  What we did to make us a team – the little things ◦ Meet monthly  Liaisons ◦ Meet individually  Designated liaisons meet with me weekly ◦ Communication

13.  What we did to make us a team – the little things ◦ Education calendar – more data

18.  Staff Changes ◦ Gone  Two designated liaisons  Two librarians ◦ Came  One designated liaison  Two librarians

19.  Future ◦ Keep improving  Consistency of teaching, training curriculums  Examples database  Standardize handouts  Share information, work together, communicate  Education calendar

20.  Future Projects ◦ Reorganization of shared files ◦ Consistent naming of shared files  SharePoint (library intranet)  Shared drive ◦ Cross training ◦ Marketing oversight

21. Questions?

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23.  Kelly Thormodson ◦ Coordinator, Education & Research ◦ Hardin Library for the Health Sciences ◦ Kelly-thormodson@uiowa.edu