Developing Relationships with Faculty Using Unique Collections смотреть онлайн

Recorded on Monday, December 12, 2022
Trainers: Laura Mosher & Alicia Mauldin-Ware, United States Military Academy at West Point Library

During the summer on-boarding process for new faculty members at West Point, a significant number of first-time instructors undergo orientation and training in their departments and across the academy. This orientation process includes a session in the USMA Library, during which their Department Liaison Librarian introduces these instructors to the resources available through the library and explains the many ways we support both faculty and cadets in our departments. A highlight of these tours is a visit to our Archives and Special Collections, where materials specific to each department’s interests are presented. These new faculty members are able to examine rare and unique items (such as old textbooks, examples of cadet course work such as drawings, workbooks, correspondence, and photos of classes and life throughout West Point’s history), and learn how the resources in this collection can be incorporated into their instruction. We will give an overview of the faculty onboarding process, discuss how we select items to display for the variety of departments we serve, and give examples of how presenting these unique materials to new faculty has resulted in increased librarian involvement with both faculty and cadets through classes and research projects.