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As the liaison to the Plant Science departments at the University of Minnesota, I have the opportunity to support the research and teaching of the departments. I visit courses to teach information literacy sessions, work one on one with graduate students and faculty on literature searching, data management, and communication skills such as how to create scientific posters and presentations. Collaboration is important to me, and I have been able to collaborate with the members of my departments and my colleagues. I’ve had the opportunity to work with a faculty member to integrate multiple library sessions into their course and create an assignment (which was harder than I thought it would be!) and to contribute to the formation of a data sharing appendix for one departments graduate student handbook. Through research projects with colleagues I have gotten to learn about and explore the world of grey literature and in another project increase my knowledge of research metrics. I’m very thankful to work with great people and I really look forward to future collaboration opportunities.