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crl-27008	Ellis, Erin L.; Becker, Jill K.	Defining Engagement for Academic Librarians	2025	13	.pdf	application/pdf	7598	327	35	To do so, they drafted and tested a provisional definition of academic library engagement. Their paper concludes with a revised definition of academic library engagement that elaborates on the “how” and the “why” of what engagement is in this context: Sustained, strategic positioning of the academic library, through new or redirected resources, to create collaborative relationships with identified parties in order to advance institutional, community, and societal goals; through a progression of activities ranging from one-time initiatives, to longer-term projects, to enduring partnerships; to solve institutional- and community-level problems, or to support broad efforts to address long-range societal issues, through a range of engaged activities to create new knowledge, new products and services through these strategic choices; and to effect qualitatively different roles for academic libraries themselves through influential, reciprocal, and value enhancing relationships of Defining Engagement for Academic Librarians 871 mutual benefit to libraries and the varied constituents and publics with whom they collaborate (2011, p. 347).	cache/crl-27008.pdf	txt/crl-27008.txt