Getting in with the Guild: Tactical Strategies for engaging with instructors

Session Description: Do you want to assist more students enrolled in foundational courses? Need to bend the ear of the sages (faculty members, coordinators) acting as gate-keepers? 

Come learn how to effectively gather faculty stories and problems, in order to frame library services around their needs (rather than what we think they need). In this skill-building workshop, you’ll create an outreach plan, practice informational interviews, and build confidence around faculty engagement.

Session Format & Style: Skills-Building Workshop

Takeaways:

Come away from this sessions with an outreach plan tailored to first-year intro courses with many sections (Rhetoric, English 101, etc).

Level up your engagement skills

Practice informational interviews

Organization: Formed. However, we recognize that we are from a research university and have that as a lens. If librarians from other types of schools (community colleges, liberal arts) are interested, we’d welcome additional collaborators and perspective.

Contact Information: Gina Petersen (gina.petersen@northwestern.edu); Becca Greenstein (rgreenst@northwestern.edu).