Outreach Services

Stefan Smith, Outreach Librarian ssmith@uwlax.edu  608 785-8396

Hi! Welcome to outreach at Murphy Library. Outreach is a one-person department here, but everyone in the library is involved in outreach in one way or another.

What do I do as outreach librarian? In addition to being a librarian, which entails working at the reference desk, teaching library instruction classes, participating in shared governance of the library department, and all the other things that keep us all busy, other activities include:

• Manage overall publicity for the library, including media, email campaigns, written communications, graphics, etc.
   
• Manage the librarian/residence hall program. This matches librarians to residence halls so that students in halls have a personal contact at the library.
   
• Manage most library publications including writing weekly columns for The Racquet and the Campus Connection, editing the Fine Print newsletter.
   
• Manage a few library-wide programs such as Faculty House Calls Service and Faculty Department Visits.
   
• Work with other librarians to develop resources for specific populations such as distance learners,  graduate students, current faculty, and newer faculty.
   
• Meet with dozens of classes each year as a part of the library's Information Literacy Instruction program.
   
• Create graphics such as for the library home page, the cafe opening, READ Posters, etc.
   
• Assist librarians with publicity, graphics, and websites for things they want to promote.

Murphy Library
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
1725 State St., La Crosse, WI 54601, USA
(608) 785-8505