Models for Corporate & Academic Library Partnerships

1. Tim Gallati June 10, 2013 Models for Corporate & Academic Library Partnerships

2. 1 2 3 4 5 • Client Eco-System • Introduction Shared Challenges Connect, Collaborate, Strategize Case Studies Agenda

3. Client Eco-System Our Clients Are Your Clients • Fluid Movement Between Spaces • Embrace This Perspective • Avoid Domain Echo-Chamber • “We want to see where we are sending our students.”

4. Shared Challenges Dialogue Crowdsource Collaboration Activities “A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren’t echo chambers.” - Margaret Heffernan

5. Connect, Collaborate, Strategize

6. Connection Conference UCSD Engineering Library Staff & Qualcomm Library • Mobile Solutions • Agile Design • Single Sign On; Security • Library Strategies • Structural Changes • Direction & Positioning • Data Management • Data Curation Program; NSF Requirements • Data Analysis & Research Delivery (One to Many) • Networking

7. Internships UCLA MLIS Intern Summer 2012 • Usability Study • Functional Improvements • Exploratory Research • Findings • Information Seeking Behaviors • Engineering Knowledge, Engineering Practice • Formation of Research Practices • Analytics • Relationships with UC Usability Teams • An “Information” Thing

8. Benefits Academic & Corporate Library Partnerships • Grow Your Solutions Network • Like Challenges, New Perspectives • Window Into Client Expectations • Learn New Tools & Methods

9. “Validity is not a commodity that can be purchased with techniques. Instead, it depends on the relationship of your conclusions to the real world, and there are no methods that can assure you that you have adequately grasped those aspects of the world that you are studying.” Joseph A. Maxell in Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (86).

10. Thank you. tgallati@qualcomm.com