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Models for Corporate & Academic Library Partnerships

Tim GallatiJune 10, 2013

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Agenda

Shared Challenges

3Connect, Collaborate,

Strategize

4Case

Studies

5Introduction

1Client

Eco-System

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Client Eco-System

• Fluid Movement Between Spaces

• Embrace This Perspective

• Avoid Domain Echo-Chamber

“We want to see where we are sending our students.”

Our Clients Are Your Clients

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University of

CaliforniaQualcomm

Shared Challenges

Collaboration

Crowdsource

Activities

Dialogue

“A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren’t echo chambers.” - Margaret Heffernan

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Connect, Collaborate, Strategize

Conferences Research

Internships

Methodology

Qualcomm hosts conferences with UCSD

Mobile SolutionsLibrary StrategiesData Management

Qualcomm inspires academic research at UCLA

Data VisualizationMobile DesignText Mining

Summer internships foster relationships with i-Schools

Usability StudiesUser ExperienceResearch Practices

Colleagues share techniques in areas of expertise

Agile DesignLibrary AnalyticsUsability Research

Day long conference to present and discuss common issues.

Poster session features data visualization project with UCLA

Interns share emerging practices and learn new skills

Specialists share their practices with colleagues across domains.

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Mobile Solutions− Agile Design− Single Sign On; Security

Library Strategies− Structural Changes− Direction & Positioning

Data Management− Data Curation Program; NSF Requirements− Data Analysis & Research Delivery (One to Many)

Networking

Connection ConferenceUCSD Engineering Library Staff & Qualcomm Library

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InternshipsUCLA MLIS Intern Summer 2012

Usability Study− Functional Improvements− Exploratory Research

Findings− Information Seeking Behaviors− Engineering Knowledge, Engineering Practice− Formation of Research Practices

AnalyticsRelationships with UC Usability TeamsAn “Information” Thing

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Grow Your Solutions NetworkLike Challenges, New PerspectivesWindow Into Client ExpectationsLearn New Tools & Methods

BenefitsAcademic & Corporate Library Partnerships

Participate in Eco-System

Promotes Cross Pollination

Renewed Frameworks

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“Validity is not a commodity that can be purchased with techniques. Instead, it depends on the relationship of your conclusions to the real world, and there are no methods that can assure you that you have adequately grasped those aspects of the world that you are studying.”Joseph A. Maxell in Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (86).

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Thank you.

tgallati@qualcomm.com