Beyond These Walls

The Live-In Librarian

“…Many outreach advocates note that their efforts created goodwill among users, increased the library' s visibility, and built positive relationships. 10 Indeed, some librarians even considered those intangible benefits so valuable that they outweighed somewhat disappointing reference statistics. 11 Moreover, librarians champion outpost services as allowing for serendipitous or chance encounters in a way that traditional services do not.…”

“…18 Oakland University librarians' outreach programs included a book club for students living in residence halls. 19 Other efforts have identified residence halls as a valuable opportunity to market library services to new users, though they didn't include moving the provision of services into that venue. 20 Of course, an antecedent to residence hall outreach long predates the current concerns about virtual competition and dwindling gate counts: contemporary residence hall outreach may be viewed as a sort of philosophical heir to the long tradition of dormitory libraries, whose goal of extending the students' scholarly life into their homes should resonate with outreach librarians exploring the venue.…”

Library experiences of transfer students at an urban campus

“…Phillips and Atwood (2010) suggest modeling a transfer student information literacy program on the National Resource Center's work for Students in Transition, with the idea being that transfer students would be introduced to the same kind of support as their first-year peers (p. 344). Identifying and meeting all of those needs can be difficult, with some studies, which researched transfer students outside of the frame of the library, recommending that transfer students be considered like other underserved populations, including racial and ethnic minorities and first-generation students (Kraemer, Keyse, & Lombardo, 2003;Lafrance & Kealey, 2017;Switzer, 2008).…”

The Mobile Reference Service: a case study of an onsite reference service program at the school of public health

“…A 2004 survey conducted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) reported that forty-one libraries across the country provided scheduled, in-person services in academic departments or other institutional spaces outside of the library [2]. Some university libraries set up satellite reference and education services at student residence halls [5][6][7]. Others provided onsite, face-toface services at a variety of campus centers, writing centers, career centers, study halls or commons, student unions, and other locations where students congregate [8][9][10][11][12].…”