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Some ideas that work (some of the time) for us in an AA/BA school: Do custom hand outs. One pagers, back-to-back. Or how about some way of freshly and regularly advertising your web site stuff every qtr, perhaps snappy group e-mails to student lists, faculty lists, etc.? You have to talk to/interview the faculty/students all the time and keep your ear to the ground to be able to do this consistently well. We don't have MA/ Ph. D classes at my school, but I find that the teachers really appreciate getting something to pass along to the students, and I'd do this if I too worked for MAs, etc. Make sure your name, phone# and affiliation is all over it, (at least in the footer) so that it's not passed off as the teacher's work. After all, you're trying to "brand" this stuff. Sure, a lot of students won't read it, (there will always be thirsty stubborn horses), but those who do will have a useful tool, and will see a demonstration of your knowledge of the area, and the library's proactiveness. It's never as good as "face-to-face" BI, but students/teachers get bored with generic library classes, which you're often forced to do, often because the students come from different majors, etc. (This is what I struggle with, it's like "unisex" clothing, one size fits nobody.) And get some stuff written and submitted to the departmental newsletter. Regularly. Like every week if that's how often the publication comes out. This is a tactful way of teaching the faculty about the new stuff in the library that they really ought to know about, but haven't had time/motivation to look for. The older I get, the more I see that faculty just don't think about information resources the way librarians think about it: as discrete units, to be organized, sourced and recalled for the good of the many. The reality is that many students/faculty don't see the formal teaching role of the librarian as particularly valuable, if they see it at all, yet they practically drop dead with joy when they work one-on-one with you on some research topic that is personally meaningful to them. Unfortunately these one-to-one opportunities are few and far between in any busy library. So many faculty/grad students think we're too busy being bibliographers, in a backroom somewhere, cataloging in Sanskrit or whatever. Well, we could actually be doing that, but there's no point hiding your light under a bushel. You need to be seen as part of the team. This is one way of speeding that along. Best wishes Cathy Donaldson Libr Dir Art Institute of Seattle __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]