An Outreach Role Hitting Close to Home: Disability Resource Programs and the PASS Program
Two of my energetic colleagues, Janet and Kaela, have been doing serious inroads with outreach to various student services offices on our campus. They titled the effort the PASS program, or Library Partnerships to Achieve Student Success. They set up a website here , and have built relationships with a number of offices on campus that directly serve student populations who may have special needs that the Library can help with. Now that they have done the hard work of building relationships with university staff in those areas, and developed some outreach materials, programming, and reference hours, they asked for folks interested n helping them continue the program. I was very excited to volunteer to be our liaison to the Disability Resource Programs office, and I'm looking forward to helping in this area for a few reasons, not the least of which is that I identify with the student population. If you're a Facebook follower of mine, you may know that I'm suffering from one o...