The Live-In Librarian Developing Library Outreach to University Residence Halls

摘要

Because of the proliferation of remote resources that allow users to complete re search without visiting a library in person, many academic librarians have responded with outreach initiatives that extend li brary services to a variety of campus locations. Residence halls, however, have received little attention as an outreach venue despite the fact that most universi ties stress the importance of housing's edu cational mission. In the three years that University of Oklahoma librarian Kar en Antell lived as Faculty-in-Residence, she developed extensive library and edu cational programming for the students in her residence hall. These experiences formed the basis of a successful continuing outreach program to students in university housing even after Antell was no longer liv ing in the dormitory. This article describes these programs and places them in the con text of other institutions' outreach efforts, identifying factors necessary for successful library outreach to residence halls.