Listening to Many Voices: Community Conversations and
the Graduate Experience
Rutgers University Libraries
Presenters:
Nancy Kranich, Special Projects Librarian, nancy.kranich@rutgers.edu
Laura Palumbo, Chemistry and Physics Librarian/Science Data
Specialist, laura.palumbo@rutgers.edu
Jonathan Sauceda, Music and Performing Arts Librarian,
jonathan.sauceda@rutgers.edu
VALE/NJ ACRL/NJLA CUS Users' Conference
January 9, 2015
Presentation Outline
I.
From Dialogue to Action
II.
Turning Outward
III. Stage 1: Building Community Knowledge
IV.
Stage 2: Executing strategies and Actions that Fit Our
Community
a. Framework
b. Examples
V.
Stage 3: Embedding and Sustaining Change
Listening to Many Voices: Community Conversations and
the Graduate Experience
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Prepared by Nancy Kranich, Laura Palumbo, and Jonathan Sauceda