Roundtable: Organizational Models for reaching graduate students

Graduate student serving institutions can be as different as night and day, which can include everything from student population size, types of programs offered, number of programs offered, and even the makeup of the students served. But just as those institutions vary, so does the manner by which libraries respond to the needs of the graduate student population. Some universities may convene a standing committee, or a task force. Others may hire or realign a single person or a team of people. But how does that all look in real-time? How does a single person or team tackle all of the graduate student needs of an institution? How does the library administration support the initiatives of a single committee? Of the aforementioned methods, which is most effective or ineffective? These are some of the questions that will be posed within a roundtable discussion of the organizational structural benefits and challenges when meeting the needs of graduate students. Participants will share and learn best practices when working with the barriers of existing job descriptions (or lack thereof.) Participants will also share and learn how to work smarter with existing organizational support