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Asset Mapping in Academic Libraries: Collaborating Across University and Library Departments

Asset Mapping in Academic Libraries: Collaborating Across University and Library Departments

Alia Levar Wegner, Alea Henle
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781668425152|ISBN10: 1668425157|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668425169|EISBN13: 9781668425176
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-2515-2.ch008
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Wegner, Alia Levar, and Alea Henle. "Asset Mapping in Academic Libraries: Collaborating Across University and Library Departments." Cases on Establishing Effective Collaborations in Academic Libraries, edited by Mary E. Piorun and Regina Fisher Raboin, IGI Global, 2023, pp. 153-173. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-2515-2.ch008

APA

Wegner, A. L. & Henle, A. (2023). Asset Mapping in Academic Libraries: Collaborating Across University and Library Departments. In M. Piorun & R. Raboin (Eds.), Cases on Establishing Effective Collaborations in Academic Libraries (pp. 153-173). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-2515-2.ch008

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Wegner, Alia Levar, and Alea Henle. "Asset Mapping in Academic Libraries: Collaborating Across University and Library Departments." In Cases on Establishing Effective Collaborations in Academic Libraries, edited by Mary E. Piorun and Regina Fisher Raboin, 153-173. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-2515-2.ch008

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Abstract

Miami University Libraries harnessed the power of asset mapping to create and manage eight remote digital projects during the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on library staff and students from across the university. This chapter documents the steps and actions and offers insights into techniques and approaches that may be adopted under different circumstances. Asset mapping facilitated matching available staff and skills with available projects and resulted in a dramatic increase in productivity. Properly deploying asset mapping involves identifying ways to provide benefit to all involved parties. Special collections used the quarantine to jumpstart alliances with other departments, who provided staff time, skill, and labor, but the initiative's success is demonstrated not merely by productivity during quarantine but staff interest in maintaining a degree of involvement afterward.

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