A systematic literature review on building collaboration between teaching faculty and librarians in university education

Purpose: This paper aims to identify what research papers on building collaboration between teaching faculty and librarians in higher education have been published in Library and Information Science; which methodologies and theoretical frameworks have been applied; and what themes have been discussed. Methods: In this systematic review, research papers were carefully selected based on replicable search strategies and inclusion and exclusion criteria defined for this study. The data were analyzed through a content analysis, and an overall picture of building collaboration between teaching faculty and librarians in higher education was constructed. Results: The study clarified the following points: 1)there were considerably fewer research papers on this topic than the number of practical reports; 2)regarding authors of these research papers, there were many more college and university librarians than researchers in Library and Information Science or other disciplines; 3)there were a limited number of researchers who continued studying this topic; 4)most of the research papers were qualitative studies; 5)only a few papers applied theoretical frameworks; 6)core papers regarding this topic were not identified. 7)