Session Description:
For many liaison librarians, forming collaborative research relationships with faculty is the ultimate form of supporting faculty research in an environment where faculty are faced with publish or perish tenure requirements and increased institutional pressure to produce impactful scholarship. But how do liaisons overcome the barriers that often limit their ability to collaborate with faculty on research endeavors? This paper will present both the factors that serve as barriers and those that serve as facilitators to liaisons ability to develop successful research collaborations with faculty and suggestions for how to best overcome those barriers.
