Meeting Our Users Where They Conference: A Texas A&M Model to Support Librarian Attendance at Subject-Specific Conferences Academic Article

abstract

• Today's academic librarian is frequently called upon to function as a subject specialist, with or without advanced degrees in other disciplines. One method of monitoring trends within a given field is to study its literature; another is to attend conferences in the discipline. Discipline-specific conference attendance by academic librarians provides opportunities to interact with faculty in their disciplines that result in an increased communication with faculty, improved reference expertise, and more focused collection development. This paper describes the Texas A&M University Libraries' support for conference attendance and examples of the resulting benefits. Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

authors

• Hankins, Rebecca
• Melgoza, Pauline
• Seeger, Christina

published proceedings

• Public Services Quarterly

author list (cited authors)

• Hankins, R., Melgoza, P., Seeger, C., & Wan, G.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• Hankins, Rebecca||Melgoza, Pauline||Seeger, Christina||Wan, Gary

publication date

• January 2009

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Public Services Quarterly  Journal

keywords

• Academic Librarians
• Collection
• Subject-specific Conferences
• Tenure

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/15228950902837541

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/86481

start page

• 98

end page

• 113

volume

• 5

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15228950902837541