Becoming a librarian BFF: Three tips to connect with your students

Erica England, Leo S. Lo

Abstract

At the ACRL 2017 conference in Baltimore, Maryland, we presented a poster on a program called, “The Librarian BFF Program for Distance Graduate Students.”1 The title is a tongue-in-cheek way of framing librarians to be students’ and faculty’s “best friend forever,” which was our approach for providing a personalized librarian service to a specific group of users. With the connotation of being a “BFF,” we adopted a more playful and intimate attitude to delivering the service.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.78.9.510
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