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McBurney, Jenny; Hunt, Shanda L.; Gyendina, Mariya; Brown, Sarah Jane; Wiggins, Benjamin; Nackerud, Shane – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
To create more direct and equal collaborations with faculty, the University of Minnesota Libraries in the Twin Cities adapted a new model of engagement: the "Research Sprints." Research Sprints place librarians in direct proximity with faculty to rapidly and collaboratively work on a component of a research project in less than a week.…
Descriptors: Library Research, Academic Libraries, Librarians, College Faculty
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Garrison, Brian Wade – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2013
After providing access to over 100 video interviews conducted by a professor with notable entertainers and personalities from film through an institutional repository, an experiment was conducted to discover whether a larger audience could be gained by adding a subset of 32 of these videos to YouTube. The results, over 400,000 views, indicate that…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Delivery Systems, Online Systems, Internet
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Stratton, John M. – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2004
Academic branch libraries located at a distance from the parent institution often face unique challenges in meeting users' needs for scholarly information. This is especially true for distant branch libraries that do not have a specialized function or collection, but who often face the challenge of meeting users' needs for scholarly materials…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, User Needs (Information), Access to Information, Library Development