We often hail collaboration as the key to success in academic pursuits. But does higher education culture prevent collaborative relationships from developing? Has the pandemic opened up opportunities between departments that weren’t present before?

Susan Mizruchi, editor of Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age, explains how academia can encourage specialization or “tending our own gardens,” which prevents exciting, fruitful collaboration between departments. Susan argues that engaging librarians in pedagogy and librarianship in academia can only produce more well-rounded, comprehensive results.

In the final episode of this series, Susan discusses the value of collaboration between departments and its increasing necessity in our multi-dimensional, complex digital age. Despite our collective “Zoom fatigue,” Susan points out potential opportunities for interdisciplinary partnerships thanks to our new reliance on virtual technology and lack of geographical constraints.