Embedded Librarian in Higher Education
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This document discusses the role and definition of embedded librarianship in higher education, emphasizing the importance of collaboration between librarians and academic teams to enhance information access and support. It contrasts traditional librarianship models with embedded approaches, highlighting attributes such as ongoing partnerships and customized contributions. The conference included topics on the integration of librarians in distance education and various library programs, aiming to foster better relationships and understanding of user needs.
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- 1. EMBEDDED LIBRARIAN IN HIGHER EDUCATION SHAHRIL EFFENDI IBRAHIM OUM LIBRARY FAZLI OMAR IIUM LIBRARY
- 2. ● Introduction & definition ● Librarianship models: revisited ● Why embedded librarianship (EL)? ● Attributes of EL International Conference on Libraries: “Openness Paradigm: Emerging Knowledge Ecologies" 25th- 26th August 2015, Vistana Hotel, Penang, Malaysia SCOPE
- 3. ● EL in distance education ● EL in Dar Al-Hikmah Library, IIUM ● Sustaining EL roles ● Conclusion SCOPE International Conference on Libraries: “Openness Paradigm: Emerging Knowledge Ecologies" 25th- 26th August 2015, Vistana Hotel, Penang, Malaysia
- 4. INTRODUCTION International Conference on Libraries: “Openness Paradigm: Emerging Knowledge Ecologies" 25th- 26th August 2015, Vistana Hotel, Penang, Malaysia ● A librarian? ● Someone who works in a library ● Digital information is ubiquitous – people no more go to libraries to get info
- 5. ● form a strong working relationship between librarian & group of team who need of the librarian’s information expertise ● this relationship produce a shared goal DEFINITION International Conference on Libraries: “Openness Paradigm: Emerging Knowledge Ecologies" 25th- 26th August 2015, Vistana Hotel, Penang, Malaysia
- 6. ● Librarian accepted as member of the group ● knowledge and understanding of the group grows ● result in customised, high-value of contribution DEFINITION
- 7. DEFINITION RELATIONSHIP SHARED GOALS CUSTOMISED, HIGH-VALUE CONTRIBUTION EMBEDDED LIBRARIANSHIP Factors that define Embedded Librarianship (Shumaker, 2009)
- 8. ● an integral part to the whole (Dene, 2011) ● term derived from – embedded journalist (Dewey, 2004) ● closed physical proximity not compulsory, but an advantage DEFINITION
- 9. Virtual librarian available remotely via all kind of communications still in passive mode LIBRARIANSHIP MODELS: REVISITED International Conference on Libraries: “Openness Paradigm: Emerging Knowledge Ecologies" 25th- 26th August 2015, Vistana Hotel, Penang, Malaysia
- 10. Roving librarian librarian leaves library & set a different physical location ‘service center’ still disconnected from the work of organisation LIBRARIANSHIP MODELS: REVISITED
- 11. Traditional subject liaison librarian goal – reference service and collection development not share institutional goal in teaching & research LIBRARIANSHIP MODELS: REVISITED
- 12. Embedded librarian ongoing working relationship members of the group consider librarian as one of the members customised, high-value contribution LIBRARIANSHIP MODELS: REVISITED
- 13. • decreasing number of face to face reference transactions • growing number of literature esp. online • little access to students in classroom WHY EMBEDDED LIBRARIAN?
- 14. ATTRIBUTES OF EMBEDDED LIBRARIANS Differences between Traditional & Embedded Librarianship (Schumaker, 2009) TRADITIONAL EMBEDDED Responsive Anticipatory Individual customers Team of collaborators Standardised Customised Single transaction Ongoing projects Service Partnership
- 15. • integrating librarian with students and faculty members in Learning Management System (LMS) • librarians participate in forum, Library Guide, instructional video, screen casting, etc EL IN DISTANCE EDUCATION
- 16. EL IN DISTANCE EDUCATION Librarian at Community College of Vermont (CCV) participate in online forum
- 17. EL IN DISTANCE EDUCATION Librarian at Community College of Vermont (CCV) participate in online forum
- 18. • Embedded librarian similar to the liaison librarian programme • Library & Faculty form a partnership in Information Literacy (IL) programme EL IN DAR AL-HIKMAH LIBRARY, IIUM
- 19. EL IN DAR AL-HIKMAH LIBRARY, IIUM NO. MODULE LEVEL OF STUDY 1 Library skills for first year students Undergraduate 2 Law 1030: Legal method Undergraduate 3 LE/LQ 4000: English/Arabic for academic purpose Undergraduate 4 Library research skills for post graduate Post Graduate 5 LAW 6812: legal research Post Graduate 6 ACC 6650: Academic writing and library search Post Graduate 7 Bibliographic tools (Endnotes & Mendeley) All levels
- 20. • Liaison librarian is integrated to courses EL IN DAR AL-HIKMAH LIBRARY, IIUM
- 21. EL IN DAR AL-HIKMAH LIBRARY, IIUM WEEK TOPIC 8 Introduction: Using the library for academic research purposes 9 Electronic Research Process (Library) Search techniques - how to develop your search query, Boolean Operators, Proximity Search, Query Language - some rules for formulating search queries 10 Electronic Research Process - Online Databases 11 Using Internet for Research Purposes Evaluating the world wide web documents Search engines - various types; the advantages and disadvantages. of search engines ACC 6650: Academic writing and library search
- 22. • Build strong relationships with users • Focus on understanding users’ work and information needs • Share their goals and actively contribute to the achievement of those goals SUSTAINING EMBEDDED LIBRARIAN
- 23. • Embedded librarianship is more than service. It is partnership • Embedded librarianship proceeds from tradition of subject liaison librarians • The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed (William Gibson, 1993) CONCLUSION
- 24. • Obstacles from faculty & academic admin is there • But the greater obstacle is limitation of vision and ambitions of librarians CONCLUSION
- 25. - Thank you -
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