Last year's participants report back

Last year's librarians' academy participants who were selected to go abroad, were kind enough to pay us a visit today and share their experiences in various libraries that they visited in the US. For me, the common denominator in their reports was that, "we (librarians) are not doing enough to make ourselves visible to the academic departments." We need to move away from our quiet offices and show our faces to the departments that we serve. To penetrate these departments/faculties should not be as difficult as we think, we only need to be creative and identify the loopholes that are there and use them accordingly.