Dovetailing with the above, here is a nice little description from little Alma College, Alma, MI:
http://www.alma.edu/academics/library/services/liaisonlibrarian
Liason Librarian Program

Purpose:

The purpose of this program is to support effective communication between the library and the college's academic departments in order to facilitate partnerships, to support teaching and research needs and ultimately to develop an information literate student body.

Liaison Services include:

Library instruction for your classes that emphasize research skills
Assisting departments with developing high quality book and media collections in their disciplines
Collaborating to integrate library and research skills into the curriculum
Updating departments on new resources and library technology
Who is your liaison librarian?

I'll probably think of more later, but here are a few things we've been doing with Dentistry that come to mind.

- Blog
- Opt-in blog news by e-mail
- Monthly blog news headlines to school
- Blog feed to web page
- Curriculum committee
- Partnering with school to offer Web 2.0 classes
- Academic and Business Continuity committee (disaster planning)
- Let's Face It website project
- Course-integrated instruction beyond databases (i.e. dental history, internet searching skills, etc.)
- Partnering with faculty on articles and conference presentations
- Consumer health information center in library
- Exhibits
- CE for alumni
- CE for departments

I have had the honor of TWO invitations to Child Psyc in the past 6 months. Went the second time today "because the fellows want a session just for us." It was the most interactive session I have ever done, was scheduled 12-2 and ran to 2:30 -- they did not want to leave. I learned SO much about what they need to do with regard to using literature. And I think they will have me back.

One "Project" I keep offering for all of psyc is to set up an occasional "office hours" out at Upjohn for drop in assistance. No takers yet...

That's great, Pat. Thanks for sharing your sucess.

The "office hours on site" concept intrigues me asnd I'd love to see us pilot that with one or more groups in the new year.

Other thoughts or ideas of departments that would be good candidates?

Thanks, Patricia, for the summary of what you're doing in Dentistry.

I think the blog postings you've been doing for the dentistry library could be a good model for growing the library news blog. Could you share the link so more of us can take a look at what you've done?

ALos, given our discussions elsewhere on this blog, can you talk a little more about the opt-in email list for blog posts?