Embedded

Librarianship:

Trends and

Transformations Courtney Mlinar

Rochester Regional Library Council 2016

Where it began…

Public Libraries

Library Journal

article: Oct. 1876

Samuel Swett Green:

Librarians should -

Help the reader

Mingle with the reader

ACRL Standards for IL

Early 2000’s…

Educational Trends of

1990s-2000s

Development of national standards

Curriculum development

Learning outcomes

Integrating educational technology

Checklist of Learning

Outcomes

Determine the extent of information needed

Access the needed information effectively and efficiently

Evaluate information and its sources critically

Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge

base

Use information effectively to accomplish a specific

purpose

Understand the economic, legal, and social issues

surrounding the use of information, and access and use

information ethically and legally

Educational trends: current

Metacognition: an awareness and

understanding of one’s own thought

processes

Learning strategies

Competency-based education (CBE)

Micro-credentialing (badges)

Social learning

Learning on the go

Framework for IL

Authority Is Constructed and

Contextual

Information Creation as a Process

Information Has Value

Research as Inquiry

Scholarship as Conversation

Searching as Strategic Exploration

Embedded Librarian Trends

Discussion begins again in 2004…

Trend 1:

applying the knowledge

and skills of librarians

towards the information

challenges

-problem solving

Trend 2:

Librarian -out of the library

in an “on-site” setting or

situation that enables close

coordination and

collaboration

Trend 3:

librarians move from a

supporting role into

partnerships

- Shared responsibility for

achieving group goals

Blended Librarian 2004

Bell, Steven J., & Shank, John. (2004). The blended librarian: A blueprint for redefining the teaching and learning role of academic librarians. College & Research Libraries News, 65(7), 372-375.

Ad 2015:

HigherEd Jobs

Blended Learning Librarian

Skill set of an academic librarian and instructional

designer

Apply instructional technology into teaching and

learning process

For information literacy and technological

competency

Poll:

Who is responsible for

Technological

Competence?

Blended Librarians:

Campus innovators and change agents

Developers of campus-wide information literacy

initiatives

Designing instructional and educational

programs

Collaborating and engaging

Implementing adaptive, creative, proactive, and

innovative change in library instruction.

Transforming our relationship with faculty

Mingling technology and

librarianship:

Increased visibility

Definition of embedded

librarianship:

Barbara Dewey (2004):

- Integral part of the whole

- Experiencing, observing daily life of

another group

- Value-added services

Roles may include:

Researcher

Content manager

Teacher

Patient advocate

Big Data=Information

Overload

Major problem in most

organizations:

Organize

Classify

Sort

Archive

Big Data

Daily digital activity:

Another opportunity:

Another form of Blended Librarianship?

Information is everywhere

- So why are we staying in the library?

Multiple information access

points:

How do they access you?

Closed stacks to open

stacks:

- No public access to books

- Librarian brought information to user

- Now open stacks

- Everyone can access the books

Librarian Access

Why do librarians matter?

Librarian-centric:

Skills

Knowledge

Ability to connect and collaborate

Paradigm shift…

Librarians

Not

Libraries

Building Relationships

Not Marketing the Library…

Putting ourselves out there

Reference interviews outside the library

Finding connections

Not Library Buildings

Librarian Partners

Schumaker 2009

Get out of the library

Find new ways to relate to your users

Build relationships

Collaborate

Learn about parent organization

More Schumaker Strategies:

Assess your library and organizational readiness

Get included in teams

Take ownership

Be the knowledge expert

Lead drive for cost effectiveness

Watch workload, staff cohesion, funding

Beware of Intra-library

Conflict

Simons 2011

Information literacy more meaningful when in-context

learning takes place

Evidence-based surgery meetings

PICO plus search strategies to resolve problem

Team teaching relationships built with teacher-librarian

and teacher-clinician

Team Teaching

Poll:

Have you

team-taught?

Medaille 2012

Team teaching

Interdisciplinary collaborations

Shared vision

Sequential learning

Teachers model collaborative relationships

Shared learning process

Social learning from different perspectives

Wiu 2013

Where is it strategically important to embed the librarian?

Education

Research

Patient care

Build a presence physically, virtually, culturally

Tan 2013:

Benefits of clinical librarianship:

1. Save the time of the clinician

2. Decrease costs

3. Support decision making

4. Improve patient care

5. Librarian is detached from emotional part of patient

care

Cognitive diversity-

Bringing librarians into the conversation…

Federer 2013

Research informationist NLM funding requests for existing NIH-funded teams in 2011

7 awarded for:

Open access compliance

Research data management

Aggregate metadata

Metadata standards

Data preservation best practices

Literature research

Brandes 2013, Tarver 2013

Value-added services…

Library and Health Records

Contextual information

Integrating point-of-care resources

Hurst 2014

Educational initiatives:

Digital literacy

Library as a learning center…

…Librarian as a learning facilitator

Boruff 2014

Medicine is mobile-

Librarian support for mobile users

Newsletter of apps

Ralmondo 2014

Collaborations:

Health literacy and writing a consent form

Building consensus

Integration of services

Generate Trust

Shared responsibility

Identity crisis?

Reference Librarian

Informationist

Information Specialist

Educational Technologist

A rose by any other name…

How do you identify yourself? Poll

Library Identity:

Preserve knowledge

Keepers of information

Collaborations

More ideas for Embedded Librarianship

Not in the Literature

Government

http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/docs/annualreport/UL

C_Sustainable_Communities_Full_Report.pdf

This publication is a statement on the significant role of

public libraries in achieving local sustainability.

http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/docs/annualreport/ULC_Sustainable_Communities_Full_Report.pdfhttp://www.nmstatelibrary.org/docs/annualreport/ULC_Sustainable_Communities_Full_Report.pdf

Building Communities

http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-

centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-

important-place-in-town/

http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/community-centered-23-reasons-why-your-library-is-the-most-important-place-in-town/

Health Outreach

http://nnlm.gov/outreach/community/guide

s/index.html

http://nnlm.gov/outreach/community/guide s/index.htmlhttp://nnlm.gov/outreach/community/guide s/index.html

Parks and Rec

http://www.pps.org/reference/schull/

http://www.pps.org/reference/schull/

Finding your past

http://www.bl.uk/familyhistory.html

British Library partnership with various organizations

http://www.bl.uk/familyhistory.html

Historical societies and

other partners…

http://www.sno-isle.org/catalog/photos/

http://www.minnesotahistorycenter.org/library-

partnership-materials

http://www.sno-isle.org/catalog/photos/http://www.sno-isle.org/catalog/photos/http://www.sno-isle.org/catalog/photos/http://www.minnesotahistorycenter.org/library-partnership-materialshttp://www.minnesotahistorycenter.org/library-partnership-materialshttp://www.minnesotahistorycenter.org/library-partnership-materialshttp://www.minnesotahistorycenter.org/library-partnership-materialshttp://www.minnesotahistorycenter.org/library-partnership-materials

Maker Spaces

http://library-maker-

culture.weebly.com/makerspaces-in-libraries.html

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Characteristics:

Leadership in organizational innovations

Change agents

Information (literacy) initiatives

Instructional design

Partnerships with IT/Faculty/Community leaders

Transforming roles and relationships

Adapting library resources and access to meet needs

Brian Matthews 2014:

Change Literacy

“…the ability to anticipate,

create, adapt, and deal with

change (in the broadest since)

as a vital fluency for people

today…” (Chronicle of HE,

March 2014)

New literacies…

Information

Digital

Visual

Health

Financial

Future Shock (Toffler):

“the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who

cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,

unlearn, and relearn.”

New roles:

Collaborators in knowledge production:

Organization

Classification

Access

Intellectual freedom

Privacy

Change advocacy…

Facilitators of change

Learning spaces

Maker spaces

Collection migration

Open access

E-books

Licensing

Liaisons

What do embedded

librarians do?

Collaborate with groups

Meet regularly with users to discuss information needs and results

Provide training outside of the library

Meet with major stakeholders to discuss information needs and services

Attend meetings, class, or conference outside the library

Communicate regularly using group’s method of contact

Critical skills and needs:

Leadership

Communication

Empowerment

Shift:

Reference transactions

To

Integrative relationships

Organizational Partners

Access

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/clinical

Literacy

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/clinical

Learning

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7081.pdf

Critical assessment of information

http://backpack.openbadges.org/backpack/login

Threshold concepts http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php?journal=cil&page=article&op=viewFile&path[]=v7i2p108&path[]=168

Systematic reviews for fundraising or benchmarks http://guides.library.tamu.edu/systematicreviews

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/clinicalhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/clinicalhttp://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7081.pdfhttp://backpack.openbadges.org/backpack/loginhttp://www.comminfolit.org/index.php?journal=cil&page=article&op=viewFile&path[]=v7i2p108&path[]=168http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php?journal=cil&page=article&op=viewFile&path[]=v7i2p108&path[]=168http://guides.library.tamu.edu/systematicreviews

Dewey 2004

Dewey, Barbara I. (2004). The Embedded Librarian:

Strategic Campus Collaborations. Resource Sharing &

Information Networks, 17

(1/2), 5-17. doi: 10.1300/J121v17n0102

“Embedded”

Journalists in Iraq war comparison

Direct interaction within partnerships

Librarian observes, shares experiences with external

group

Comprehensive collaboration

Lean in-

Be open to taking risks

Team partner, not please

Get management support

Build alliances

Explore your organization

Key Action Points:

Shared vision with the group you want to embed-

What are they trying to accomplish?

Think Librarian, not Library

Think outside the box

Teaching and Collaboration:

Librarian as key to success

Fruitful partnerships built on understanding of needs

Library as new Salon

French Salons:

Center of influence

Mixing the disciplines

Bringing people together (synergy)

Culture of connections

Pervasiveness

Librarians appointed to key committees

Access to programming and planning meetings

outside the library

Library integrated into all components of an

organization

Librarians must be leaders AND bring people together

Connections:

Partners with administrators

Subject specialists or liaisons

Research support

Grant or fundraising expertise

Technology support

Involved with content in curriculum

Homework help

Resident support

Volunteers with underserved populations

Efficacy- 2008

Bowler, Meagan, & Street, Kori. (2008). Investigating the

efficacy of embedment: experiments in information

literacy integration.

Reference Services Review 36, 438-449.

Obstacles

Bridging the gap between different groups

Overcoming internal confidence problems

Learning that you can make a difference

Becoming familiar with the culture outside the library

Feeling you don’t know how to help them

Hmmm…

Have you ever helped a group outside the library in a

group setting with your library skills?

What are your strengths?

What are you afraid of?

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