Scholarly Publishing between Academic Librarians and Subject Faculty
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Conference Strand
Outreach and Partnership
Target Audience
Higher Education
Second Target Audience
K-12
Location
Ballroom A
Relevance
Academic librarians and subject faculty who jointly publish allow for more robust collaborations, beyond one-shot instruction sessions. These collaborations make it more likely that librarians will be able to engage with faculty and embed information literacy instruction into specific courses. Also, students may perform better in classrooms where there is a stronger collaboration between the librarian and teaching faculty.
Proposal
Scholarly Publishing between Academic Librarians and Subject Faculty
This proposed GICOIL presentation describes best practices for scholarly collaboration between academic librarians and subject faculty, based on qualitative interview data. The goal is to better understand collaborative efforts between librarians and subject faculty who jointly publish.
Scholarly collaboration with subject faculty promotes the skills of research librarians and allows librarians to collaborate in scholarship as equal partners, which can improve information literacy outcomes and collaboration for students during instruction.
Also, subject faculty are more likely to notice the research accomplishments of academic librarians when librarians publish within the faculty member’s discipline. This process naturally lends itself to deeper collaborations and allows subject faculty to better understand librarian strengths during joint publications.
This presentation is intended to provide the audience with information about best practices as well as challenges and barriers when attempting to publish with subject faculty.
Methodology and Data Collection
This is a phenomenological exploration of academic librarians publishing with subject faculty. The study investigates academic librarians and subject faculty who conduct research. This qualitative inquiry utilized liminality as a theoretical framework to explore the barriers subject faculty members and academic librarians encounter when partnering to conduct collaborative research.
The study was conducted because of an identifiable research gap and a paucity of qualitative studies related to librarian and faculty research partnerships. Much of the previous existing scholarship focused on quantitative data analyzing librarians' publishing outcomes.
Data collection was performed by interviewing five academic librarians and five subject faculty pairs. The study is unique in using liminality as a theoretical framework to explore collaboration between librarians and subject faculty partners.
This presentation explores librarians who partner with subject faculty. For this reason, the study is useful and important in understanding the phenomenon of academic librarian and subject faculty collaboration. The research could benefit and support the larger research mission at universities and colleges and improve research partnerships between librarians and interdisciplinary faculty.
Short Description
Looking to collaborate? This presentation details best practices for scholarly publishing between academic librarians and subject faculty. This research was conducted with qualitative interview data and utilized liminality as a theoretical framework. You will be provided with best practices, challenges and opportunities to collaboratively publishing with subject faculty.
Keywords
Collaboration & Academic Publishing & Partnerships between Academic Librarians and Subject Faculty & Research
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Furlong, Michael, "Scholarly Publishing between Academic Librarians and Subject Faculty" (2026). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 9.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2026/2026/9
Scholarly Publishing between Academic Librarians and Subject Faculty
Ballroom A
Scholarly Publishing between Academic Librarians and Subject Faculty
This proposed GICOIL presentation describes best practices for scholarly collaboration between academic librarians and subject faculty, based on qualitative interview data. The goal is to better understand collaborative efforts between librarians and subject faculty who jointly publish.
Scholarly collaboration with subject faculty promotes the skills of research librarians and allows librarians to collaborate in scholarship as equal partners, which can improve information literacy outcomes and collaboration for students during instruction.
Also, subject faculty are more likely to notice the research accomplishments of academic librarians when librarians publish within the faculty member’s discipline. This process naturally lends itself to deeper collaborations and allows subject faculty to better understand librarian strengths during joint publications.
This presentation is intended to provide the audience with information about best practices as well as challenges and barriers when attempting to publish with subject faculty.
Methodology and Data Collection
This is a phenomenological exploration of academic librarians publishing with subject faculty. The study investigates academic librarians and subject faculty who conduct research. This qualitative inquiry utilized liminality as a theoretical framework to explore the barriers subject faculty members and academic librarians encounter when partnering to conduct collaborative research.
The study was conducted because of an identifiable research gap and a paucity of qualitative studies related to librarian and faculty research partnerships. Much of the previous existing scholarship focused on quantitative data analyzing librarians' publishing outcomes.
Data collection was performed by interviewing five academic librarians and five subject faculty pairs. The study is unique in using liminality as a theoretical framework to explore collaboration between librarians and subject faculty partners.
This presentation explores librarians who partner with subject faculty. For this reason, the study is useful and important in understanding the phenomenon of academic librarian and subject faculty collaboration. The research could benefit and support the larger research mission at universities and colleges and improve research partnerships between librarians and interdisciplinary faculty.
