This academic year has seen a number of really exciting collaborations with courses and the Baylor Libraries Special Collections. There are many more than the ones I’ll talk about here, but these are the ones in which I’ve been directly involved. Just during this year, I worked with over 1400 students in 43 different instructional settings, some of these were research related, but many were about incorporating engagement with our special collections. This work is at the heart of creating transformative educational experiences for Baylor students and has made such an impact that students write glowingly about these sessions on their course evaluations- sometimes months after the experience! As a library administrator, I’m very fortunate to be able to hold onto the opportunity to still be a practitioner librarian. It brings me a lot of joy and reward, even though it often makes for a much busy and chaotic schedule.
