The level of instructional collaboration can vary with each school, department, curriculum, or professor. Some departments and faculty members are not very open to collaboration in the classroom, while others are quite proactive in initiating librar…

The one thing I’d like to add regarding faculty/librarian collaboration is that it works very well when the librarian initiates the collaboration. I’ve had so many responses from teachers when I bring something up, when I show them books, when I take the extra step to prove myself (and the library) useful to them. Then they realize how useful the library is and they impress the usefulness, the value of the library(and the librarians) on their class, so I never get an unprepared class.