While my time at Daniel Library was brief, one problem which stood out very prominently in my mind was the lack of communication between staff members. This may be a common practice in an academic library but I do not see how it could possibly benefit the library. Daniel Library offers many resources which are available to students and faculty alike but there seems to be a disconnect in the areas of communication. My mentor is one of the resource librarians and yet she rarely collaborates with the faculty at the college. She also was not sure of some of the resource tools which are offered on the library webpage. In once instance I mentioned that there is a "Text a librarian" option for the students to use to receive help and she had not known of this before.
I believe it would benefit the library to have a staff/faculty website which discusses the roles and opportunities each librarian can provide to the faculty. Many of the faculty at the school have not used the resources in the library at all, much less using one of the librarians. Perhaps if the resources and opportunities from the library were made obvious than more faculty would take advantage. That being said I am not sure I have much confidence that this would make a change for the teachers who are so often comfortable in their familiar teaching routine.
Also for the purposes of recording my progress for this blog, I will be working in the library 2-3 full days a week, 2 weeks a month. The other two weeks I will be working full time. I will return to the library again on the 23rd of September.
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