Dear Fellow Professionals, A gentle reminder for today's talk. --------------------------------------------------------- Dear Fellow Professionals, The Library at IIT Gandhinagar cordially invites you to join us for the following talk on *Wednesday, 27th April, 2022, at 3 PM* to enrich ourselves with the experience of *Ms. Maha Kumaran* https://library.usask.ca/people/maha-kumaran.php#About, Librarian from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada in the field of Liaison Librarianship. *Title: **Liaison Librarianship – Bridging the Gap?* *Date (Day): *27.04.2022 (Wednesday) *Time: *3.00 PM *Register here: * https://iitgn-ac-in.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jYHg4A5EQKaKbcBI4Fm-qQ *About the talk:* Liaison librarianship has been effective in building partnerships with faculty and students. It has successfully (in most cases) moved librarians away from service desks to integrate with all their users, especially collaborating at the faculty level. It also helped create a well-rounded librarian with in-depth knowledge and experiences in many aspects of their liaison areas – collections, acquisitions, instruction, and focused research and scholarship in liaison areas/subjects. However, this model also has limitations. As academic institutional landscapes demographics evolve, curriculums change, technologies and librarians’ roles expand, liaison librarianship may not meet all the needs of students, researchers, and faculty in higher education systems. Many academic libraries are moving away from liaison models to functional and division roles. This is exactly what Ms. Kumaran will reflect upon, with her rich experience in the field of liaison library, during the webinar. *About the Resource Person:* Maha Kumaran is a Liaison Librarian for the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Since joining the university in 2010, she has served in multiple liaison roles and as the head of the Education & Music Library. As a liaison and faculty librarian https://library.usask.ca/people/maha-kumaran.php, she focuses her efforts on information literacy instruction, scholarship, collections, and services – the last includes working with faculty and students, particularly collaborating with faculty on various research topics including equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). She is the author/co-editor https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4643-865X of three published books and many peer-reviewed articles. Kumaran has served as the EDI Visiting Program Officer https://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/announcing-carls-visiting-program-officer-and-... for the Canadian Association of Research Libraries; serves as a member of the ARL Leadership & Career Development Program Task Force; and continues to promote EDI awareness https://acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/val-spotlight-series-practices-of-equity-so... through all her work https://www.arl.org/blog/arl-fall-forum-plants-seeds-for-change-in-talent-ma.... So we believe this would be a wonderful opportunity to learn how the library has been evolving through the years and we look forward to seeing you in large numbers. Thanks & Regards Kumbar -- T. S. Kumbar, PhD Advisor (Library & Institute Archives) Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Palaj, Gandhinagar 382 055*|* Gujarat | INDIA Tel: +91 79 2395 2431 Mob: 09825921864 Email: tskumbar@iitgn.ac.in | librarian@iitgn.ac.in Website: http://www.iitgn.ac.in Follow Us : https://www.facebook.com/Library-IITGN-105636257877813/ https://www.instagram.com/iitgn_library/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/library-iitgn/ https://in.pinterest.com/librarysocialmedia0715/ https://twitter.com/LibraryIITGN ----*--------------------------------------------------------*