Librarians' strategic approaches to teaching faculty in order to build collaboration for quality assurance in higher education

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K00449
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Mie University
• Principal Investigator: NAGASAWA Tayo 三重大学, 地域人材教育開発機構, 准教授 (30346944)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 情報リテラシー教育 / 大学図書館の学習・教育支援機能 / 教員と図書館員の連携 / 教職協働 / 教育の質保証 / 高等教育開発 / ケース・スタディ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study investigated: 1) librarians’ strategic approaches which librarians could promote to build collaboration with teaching faculty, and 2) the intervening conditions in library, institutional and social contexts based on comparative case studies.
A model of collaboration-building between teaching faculty and librarians at the University of Michigan was constructed. As categories of librarians’ approaches, “building interpersonal relationships,” “being involved in the community,” “designing customized services” and “informing their being and doing” were discovered. “Leadership of library managers” and “librarians’ competencies and personalities” were identified as categories of intervening conditions in library contexts, and “small community,” “operational support by departments” and “financial support by a university administrator” in institutional contexts. The data from Western University and the University of Tampere are now being analyzed.

Free Research Field

図書館情報学