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Madeleine Charney, Research Services Librarian

Madeleine Charney, Research Services Librarian. This presentation is derived from survey responses (112) and follow up telephone interviews (24) with academic librarians in the U.S. who are instrumental in shaping sustainability on their campuses.

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Madeleine Charney, Research Services Librarian

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  1. Madeleine Charney, Research Services Librarian This presentation is derived from survey responses (112) and follow up telephone interviews (24) with academic librarians in the U.S. who are instrumental in shaping sustainability on their campuses. Based on Spring/Summer 2011 Sabbatical Project: “Academic Librarians and Sustainability in the Curriculum.” Presented at AASHE 2011. October 11, 2011. Pittsburgh, PA

  2. Photo: Tim Platt, Getty Images Getting Closer: The Librarian, the Curriculum and the Office of Sustainability

  3. Goal #1: To support Librarians • Expand our professional network of “Sustainability Librarians” • Inspire creation and sharing of sustainability resources • Encourage participation on sustainability-related councils and committees on campus • Increase discoverability by our faculty, students, administrators • Raise our profile within the higher education sustainability movement

  4. Goal #2: To raise awareness about the Librarian’s role • Promote library resources and services which support sustainability in the curriculum • Highlight Librarians’ participation and input visa vis sustainability-related councils, committees, events, projects • Provide examples of partnerships between Librarians and the Office of Sustainability

  5. Why Librarians? • Teachers of critical thinking and sound reasoning • Seasoned consolidators and distributors of information • Unique perspectives on curricular development • Involved in expansive networks of relationships across campus Photo: Leslie Schaler

  6. Who answered the survey

  7. Please specify the topics of your research guides below. Choose as many as are relevant. Some “others”

  8. LibGuides are created by Librarianson a wide range of topics

  9. By Mark Lenker, Greenwood LibraryLongwood Universityhttp://libguides.longwood.edu/sustainability

  10. Briefly describe any curriculum-related connections or communications that you or your Library have with the "Office of Sustainability" or their staff • Meet regularly • Collaborate on LibGuides • Track sustainability courses • Co-facilitate sustainability book group • Co-coordinate sustainability conference • Post selected book lists on the OoS web site • Co-create for-credit sustainability internship • Administer Sustainability Faculty Fellows program • Carry out the STARS assessment (curriculum section) • Work together on sustainability curriculum committee • Select materials for discussion-based courses; materials added to the Library collection

  11. Barriers (aka “touchy subjects”) • “Fiefdoms” in academia • Territorialism between faculty members/departments • Blurring lines of Liaison Librarian areas Photo: Leslie Schaler

  12. Rat Man, Bugelski and Alampay (1961) Is “sustainability” top down? Bottom up? Both?

  13. Finding Common Ground • The Library = neutral place for meetings, programs, activities • The Institutional Repository = virtual place to showcase information and celebrate accomplishments • Collection Development = process for collaboration, consolidation and conservation Photo: Leslie Schaler

  14. What inspires you most about this work? • “General personal ethic - an imperative that we have to - we have no choice.” – Charles Vesei, Baldwin-Wallace College • “The Library’s Sustainability LibGuide is #1 for hits and there is no course connected to it…It’s a real positive note because I assume in many cases that LibGuides are used “just in time” because students are doing assignments… people are just interested. We are going back to the 70’s to ‘finish the job.’” -Janet Klaessig, Delaware Valley College • The thing that’s cool about librarians – we’re all about sharing information. We’ve been “sustainable” for years. We’re already half way there! … Librarianship and sustainability are a no brainer -- to take that and make it more conscious. I bet there are going to be a lot more ‘sustainability librarians’ in the world soon. “ –Sarah Dorsey, Univ. North Carolina Greensboro

  15. Ready, Set, Action! • Share resources through MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) • Harness the power of library associations • Embed more LibGuides into more courses • Bring the Piedmont Project to our campuses; get librarians involved from the start (Peggy Barlett, ArriEisen - Emory U.) • Join the “Sustainability Librarians” LinkedIn Group (Beth Filar - UNC-Greensboro) • Read “Sustainability Librarians,” a forthcoming chapter in Entrepreneur Librarians(Ann Less - Mary DavidgeAssociates, Sarah Dorsey, Beth Filar – UNC-Greensboro) • Keep connections alive and make new ones! Image: www.flickr.com/photos/library_mistress/

  16. “Librarians are evolving along with their work…”-Mark Lanker, Longwood University Image: http://claire-legrand.com

  17. Madeleine Charney • MLIS, University of Rhode Island (1991) • MALD, Sustainable Landscape Planning and Design, Conway School of Landscape Design (2003) Contact: Research & Liaison ServicesW.E.B. Du Bois Library University of Massachusetts Amherst mcharney@library.umass.edu413-577-0784 Web site: http://works.bepress.com/charney_madeleine/

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