Embedded Librarianship:Trends and Transformations

Courtney MlinarHSLANJ 2014

Samuel Swett Green:

Librarians should - Help the reader Mingle with the reader

Library Journal Oct. 1876

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.

Blended Librarian 2004

Campus innovators and change agents Developers of campus-wide information

literacy initiatives Designing instructional and educational

programs Collaborating and engaging in dialogue with Implementing adaptive, creative, proactive,

and innovative change in library instruction. Transforming our relationship with faculty

Blended Librarians:

Mingling technology and librarianship:

Increased visibility

Barbara Dewey (2004):

- Integral part of the whole

- Experiencing, observing daily life of another group

- Value-added services

Definition of embedded librarianship:

Researcher Content manager Teacher Patient advocate

Roles may include:

Daily digital activity:

Big Data=Information Overload

How do they access you?

Multiple information access points:

- So why are we staying in the library?

Information is everywhere

- No public access to books- Librarian brought information to user- Now open stacks- Everyone can access the books

Closed stacks to open stacks:

Librarian-centric: Skills Knowledge Ability to connect and collaborate

Why do librarians matter?

LibrariansNotLibraries

Paradigm shift…

Building Relationships

Not Library Buildings

Get out of the library Find new ways to relate to your users Build relationships Collaborate Learn about parent organization

Schumaker 2009

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

More Schumaker Strategies:

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

Simons 2011

Team teaching Interdisciplinary collaborations Shared vision Sequential learning Teachers model collaborative relationships Shared learning process Social learning from different perspectives

Medaille 2012

Where is it strategically important to embed the librarian? Education Research Patient care

Build a presence physically, virtually, culturally

Wiu 2013

Benefits of clinical librarianship:1. Save the time of the clinician2. Decrease costs3. Support decision making4. Improve patient care5. Librarian is detached from emotional part

of patient care

Tan 2013:

Bringing librarians into the conversation…

Cognitive diversity-

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

7 awarded for:

Open access complianceResearch data managementAggregate metadataMetadata standardsData preservation best practicesLiterature research

Federer 2013

Value-added services…

Library and Health Records

Contextual informationIntegrating point-of-care resources

Brandes 2013, Tarver 2013

Educational initiatives: Digital literacy Library as a learning center…

…Librarian as a learning facilitator

Hurst 2014

Medicine is mobile-

Librarian support for mobile users

Newsletter of apps

Boruff 2014

Collaborations:

Health literacy and writing a consent form

Ralmondo 2014

Building consensus

Integration of services

Generate Trust

Shared responsibility

Reference Librarian Informationist

Information Specialist Educational Technologist

Identity crisis?

How do you identify yourself?

A rose by any other name…

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

Characteristics:

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)

Brian Matthews 2014:

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 literacies…

Preserve knowledge Keepers of information

Library Identity:

Collaborators in knowledge production: Organization Classification Access Intellectual freedom Privacy

New roles:

Facilitators of change Learning spaces Maker spaces Collection migration Open access E-books Licensing Liaisons

Change advocacy…

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

What do embedded librarians do?

Leadership Communication Empowerment

Critical skills and needs:

Reference transactions

To

Integrative relationships

Shift:

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

Organizational Partners

Dewey, Barbara I. (2004). The Embedded Librarian: Strategic Campus Collaborations. Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 17(1/2), 5-17. doi: 10.1300/J121v17n0102

Dewey 2004

Journalists in Iraq war comparison

Direct interaction within partnerships

Librarian observes, shares experiences with external group

Comprehensive collaboration

“Embedded”

Be open to taking risks Team partner, not please Get management support Build alliances Explore your organization

Lean in-

Shared vision with the group you want to embed-

What are they trying to accomplish?

Think Librarian, not Library

Think outside the box

Key Action Points:

Librarian as key to success

Fruitful partnerships built on understanding of needs

Library as new Salon

Teaching and Collaboration:

Center of influence

Mixing the disciplines

Bringing people together (synergy)

Culture of connections

French Salons:

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

Pervasiveness

Partners with administrators Subject specialists or liaisons Research support Grant or fundraising expertise Technology support Involved with content in curriculum Homework help Resident support

Connections:

Bowler, Meagan, & Street, Kori. (2008). Investigating the efficacy of embedment: experiments in information literacy integration.Reference Services Review 36, 438-449.

Efficiacy- 2008

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

Obstacles

Blake, Lindsay, and Darra Ballance. 2013. "Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in the Hospital and the Library: Two Different Groups, One Course." Medical Reference Services Quarterly no. 32 (1):100-110. doi: 10.1080/02763869.2013.749143.

Boruff, Jill T., and Dale Storie. 2014. "Mobile devices in medicine: a survey of how medical students, residents, and faculty use smartphones and other mobile devices to find information." Journal of the Medical Library Association no. 102 (1):22-30. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.102.1.006.

Bowler, Meagan, and Kori Street. 2008. Investigating the efficacy of embedment: experiments in information literacy integration. Reference & User Services Quarterly 36 (4): 438-449.

Brandes, Susan, Karen Wells, and Margaret Bandy. 2013. "Invite Yourself to the Table: Librarian Contributions to the Electronic Medical Record." Medical Reference Services Quarterly no. 32 (3):358-364. doi: 10.1080/02763869.2013.807087.

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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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