University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Creating an outreach plan that accounts for the seen and unforeseen

Bastone, Zoe

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/109242

Description

Title
Creating an outreach plan that accounts for the seen and unforeseen
Author(s)
Bastone, Zoe
Issue Date
2020-10
Keyword(s)
  • Academic libraries
  • Outreach
  • Outreach planning
  • Outreach assessment
Abstract
Outreach is a necessary component of an academic library’s operations and often requires extensive time for the planning, approval, execution, and assessment depending on the personnel involved and the scope of the event. Recent literature has started to examine how academic libraries are planning outreach to align strategically with the goals of their larger institutions, but not how they balance these efforts when new opportunities arise throughout the academic year. This article will provide a brief analysis of the literature which addresses issues that academic librarians who plan outreach face. The second half of this article will provide a case study of how the author planned, created, and implemented an outreach plan at her academic branch library. This case study will detail the process of how she used an outreach plan to establish outreach that was efficient and impactful with limited staffing, while also aligning strategically with the goals of her library and the larger institution. In addition, this case study will detail how she used this outreach plan throughout the 2019-2020 academic year to guide decision making when new outreach opportunities would arise. This article will conclude with lessons learned from this process.
Series/Report Name or Number
Journal of Library Outreach and Engagement, Volume 1 Issue 1
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/109242
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jloe.v1i1.471
Copyright and License Information
  • Copyright 2020 Zoe Bastone
  • This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Owning Collections

JLOE V1.1 2020 PRIMARY
Volume 1 Issue 1