Dear list members

I wonder if I could ask for your help?  I'm writing a book for Chandos 
called "New Directions for Academic Liaison Librarians," in which I plan 
to give examples of the wide range of new areas and activities in which 
liaison librarians are now involved in addition to the well-established 
one of teaching information literacy.  I'm aware of virtual worlds as an 
area in which many librarians are now active, and wonder if any of you 
are involved in projects which you would consider having written up as a 
case-study for the book?  I'm particularly interested in projects where 
librarians are collaborating with academic staff, perhaps to help create 
a virtual world or to run a particular application within one.  I guess 
there are quite a lot of instances of information literacy skills etc 
being taught in SL and other virtual worlds, but I'd be especially 
interested in anything more unusual!

The idea would be that I would discover more information about your 
project via an email interview (conducted in concordance with our 
University Ethics Committee guidelines), and that I would write up a 
case study.  I would then send it back to you for checking, and ensure 
that you were happy with all content.  I hope you'd see this as good 
publicity for your project, and for "new-librarian" skills generally.

If you'd like to email me at [log in to unmask] I'd be very glad to 
hear from you.  Thank you very much for your help.

Best wishes

Alice Crawford


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Dr Alice Crawford
Senior Academic Liaison Librarian (Arts and Divinity)
Library
University of St Andrews
North Street
St Andrews
KY16 9TR

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