Dear Karen and others,
From what I have been able to gather regarding “liaison librarians” in academe, I get the impression that the typical museum librarian, at least at small to mid-sized museums whose libraries are not regularly open to the general public, is already working as a liaison librarian. At least at the museum where I work, I already attend senior staff meetings, have regular meetings with our curators, registrars and conservators, both formally, informally and socially. We already bring our resources out of the physical library, whether through resources on internal webpages, familiarizing ourselves with museum projects and alerting relevant staff to appropriate books and resources, etc. In many ways, it seems like the very positive enhanced services now being offered to students and faculty by this model make the liaison librarian’s work model more like those traditionally enjoyed by the museum librarian. More and more, in the museum world, if we do not “liaise”, we do not exist.
All best,
Eric
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The Menil Collection
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On 9/12/12 1:44 PM, "McKenzie, Karen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hello all.
In the ongoing effort to introduce positive change to the AGO library, we’re looking for guidance on best practices around the role a liaison librarian might fill in the museum setting. I’d be grateful to hear about examples of liaison librarian duties that are typical in an academic art library setting, including – Are these carried out formally or informally? How crucial are they to the academic art library? What’s the role of social media in liaison duties?
Museum librarians do liaise – a lot -- but it’s work that’s often unacknowledged and typically informal, even (at the risk of stereotyping ourselves) social in nature. Those laissez-faire days are gone and now the museum library must be quite clear about its core values, and how precisely it supports and enables the museum’s mission.
Thanks in advance for your replies.
Karen
Karen McKenzie
Chief Librarian
E.P.Taylor Research Library & Archives
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