Social and Behavioral Sciences Planning Team
Background
As part of the New Service Models discussions conducted during Spring 2009, discussion was
initiated regarding the opportunity to further coordinate, integrate, and enhance Library services
delivered in support of research, teaching and learning in the social and behavioral sciences. This
discussion built on earlier discussions of the potential to develop a "social science hub" within
the Main Library, and recognized that our model for Library services to the social and behavioral
sciences, and for allied professional programs including Teacher Education and Social Work, has
evolved consistently over the past several decades. With recent changes to the service models for
other social science disciplines, e.g., Labor & Employment Relations and Library &
Information Science, this is an appropriate time to review Library service to the social and
behavioral sciences and to identify opportunities to enhance support for these fields and for
allied, applied fields of study.
Charge
The Social and Behavioral Sciences Planning Team will:
- Engage and consult broadly with members of academic communities with regard to the delivery of
Library services supporting research, teaching, and learning in the social and behavioral
sciences
- Identify Library services and resources essential to research, teaching, and learning in the
social and behavioral sciences, including those currently available as well as those currently not
made available that should be features of the new model
- Identify opportunities for enhanced collaboration in the design and delivery of Library
services supporting the social and behavioral sciences across the University Library through review
of complementary service programs in current and emerging units including the Applied Health
Sciences Library, the Communications Library, the History, Philosophy, & Newspaper Library, the
International and Area Studies Library, and the Scholarly Commons;
- Identify opportunities for enhanced collaboration in the design and delivery of services
supporting research, teaching, and learning in the social and behavioral sciences across the Urbana
campus, including services and expertise currently housed in allied academic programs, e.g.,
Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences (ATLAS)
- Identify opportunities that will allow us to create more sustainable models for providing
library services and resources for the social and behavioral sciences and recommend the most
effective and cost-efficient model for their operation.
- Provide a report of the Team's discussions and planning recommendations to the University
Librarian and Dean of Libraries by February 15, 2010
Proposed Membership (If applicable, some members may be drawn from the AHS Planning Team, which will conclude
its work before this team is charged.)
- Barry Ackerson (Associate Dean and MSW Program Director; Social Work)
- Tim Cain (Education)
- David Irwin (Head, Psychology; Professor, Beckman Institute)
- Joe Mahoney (Business Administration -- on the Business School Library Committee)
- Anna-Maria Marshall (Associate Professor, Sociology; Associate Professor, Law)
- Elizabeth T. Powers (Economics, Institute of Government & Public Affairs)
- Helaine Silverman (Professor of Anthropology, Co-Director of Cultural Heritage and Museum
Practices)
Alternates:
- John Chandler (Associate Professor of Accountancy)
- Joe Finnerty (Professor, Finance)
- Steven Michael (Associate Professor of Business Administration)
- Zvi Ritz (Associate Professor of Business Administration and. Director of the Office of
Information Management)
- Mike Shaw (Professor of Business Administration and Leonard C. and Mary Lou Hoeft Chair of
Information Systems)
- Werner Baer (Jorge Lemann Professor of Economics)
- Darren Lubotsky (Associate Professor of Economics, School of Labor & Empl. Rel)
- Tom Schwandt (Education)
- Kiel Christiansen (Education)
- Pradeep Dhillon (Education)
- Mark Dressman (Education)
- Don Hackmann (Education)
- David Huang (Education)
- Sue Noffke (Education)
- Amy Santos (Education)
- Carolyn Shield (Education)
- Chris Span (Education)
- Jung Min Park (Assistant Professor, Social Work)
- Christopher R. Larrison (Associate Professor, Social Work)Assata Zerai (Associate Professor of
Sociology)
Library Faculty:
- Karen Hogenboom (Data Service & GIS Librarian, Reference, Research & Government
Information)
- Cindy Ingold (Women and Gender Resources)
- Sue Searing (Library & Information Science)
- Becky Smith (Business & Economics Library)
- Nancy O'Brien (Education and Social Science Library)
- Scott Walter, Administrative Liaison
Alternate:
- Jenny Johnson (Map & Geography Library)
Library Staff:
- Zoe Revell, Business & Economics *or* Holly Mansfield, Education and Social Science
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