Incorporating Branded Academic Library Programming to Promote and Showcase Campus Research and Artistic Performances

Authors

  • Christian Burris Wake Forest University
  • Carolyn McCallum Wake Forest University
  • Molly Keener Wake Forest University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v74i1.725

Keywords:

academic libraries, faculty research and scholarship, undergraduate research, campus community

Abstract

Academic libraries play a crucial role in the scholarship cycle. In addition to serving as a traditional study space, a university's community depends on their libraries to acquire and provide access to resources to support the research and instruction interests of faculty and students. In these ways, academic libraries support the cyclical nature of scholarship by collecting resources that are themselves both the tools necessary for generating future scholarship, and the outputs of past scholarship. This article focuses on two successful library-sponsored programs at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. Its Library Lecture Series, which promotes faculty research and scholarship, and its Senior Showcase, which celebrates senior undergraduates’ research, have become a part of the cyclical scholarship cycle. Library-hosted programming that draws attention to the broad array of scholarship created on university campuses offers and provides opportunities for strengthening academic libraries’ relationships with their faculty, staff, student, and community users.

Author Biographies

Christian Burris, Wake Forest University

Christian Burris is the Serials Acquisitions Coordinator at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. He currently co-chairs the ZSR Library Lecture Series.

Carolyn McCallum, Wake Forest University

Carolyn McCallum is the Cataloging Librarian for Nonprint Materials at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. She is a past co-chair of the ZSR Library Lecture Series.

Molly Keener, Wake Forest University

Molly Keener is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest University. She coordinates the ZSR Library's Senior Showcase.

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Published

2016-08-06

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Research & Librarianship