Liaison Librarians

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ACU Liaison Librarian Program

The ACU Library has liaison librarians in place on all campuses to support academic staff. Each liaison librarian has responsibility for an academic area or areas and their role is to facilitate closer communication and collaboration between the Library and the Schools to enhance the quality of the University’s teaching, learning and research activities.

The role of the liaison librarians has 3 primary functions:

Collection Development

To liaise directly with academic staff about resources to meet course and research needs. Liaison librarians are responsible for identifying and ordering new resources in their designated subject areas, working collaboratively across campuses to ensure that the collections are developed in a coordinated and coherent fashion.

Education /Information Literacy

Liaison librarians play a key role in educating students and academic staff in the techniques of information retrieval, analysis, evaluation and use, and in helping develop lifelong learning skills. This is achieved through one-on-one and small group assistance, as well as via formal information literacy classes that can customised to suit your course.

Marketing and Outreach

Not only do they promote library resources and services to assigned schools and keep them informed of any changes in policy, liaison Librarians are also responsible for providing a current awareness service based on the research and teaching interests of academic staff.

If you have not already met your designated liaison librarian, contact your campus library to find out who they are or to make an appointment.