Enriching students' learning experience: furthering opportunities for faculty-librarian collaboration

Abstract

In addressing the challenges in the curriculum re-structure moving from a three-year to a four-year undergraduate curriculum from 2012 at the University of Hong Kong, coupled with the move to outcomes-based approaches within a learning commons environment, further opportunities arise for librarian-faculty collaboration to enrich student learning. Findings from a student survey confirm the faculty’s perception that subject librarian involvement would be beneficial in helping students achieve better assessment outcome for the course. Collaborating with both faculty and students is essential to achieve best results in building and assessing collections as well as in connecting information resources with student learning needs, just as in the planning of learning commons.