Meeting name
American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibition
Meeting location
Las Vegas, NV
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
6-26-2014
Abstract
- Community engagement and service as third mission
- Targeting who to engage in community
- Community organization needs
- Academic library community services
- Benefits of community engagement
- Challenges of community engagement
- Supporting infrastructure
- Community engagement strategies
- Supporting community engagement initiatives of academic institution
- Co-curricular experiential learning community projects
- Service learning courses
- Small business development centers
- Developing academic library community outreach initiatives
- Going out to the community
- Bringing the community in the library
- Business by the book workshop series
- Following up & closing the loop
- Communicating the value of community engagement initiatives
Keywords
Academic libraries; Community organization; Libraries; Libraries and community; Library outreach programs; Service learning
Disciplines
Civic and Community Engagement | Library and Information Science
Repository Citation
Griffis, P.
(2014, June).
Supporting Community Transformation: Becoming a Community-Engaged Academic Library.
Presentation at American Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibition,
Las Vegas, NV.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/libfacpresentation/133