Program Description: In a time of tightening budgets and calls for increased student-centeredness in academia,
college libraries need find more concrete ways than traditional library measures to demonstrate their effectiveness. Librarian Jeff Knapp has joined with sociologist Nicholas Rowland, who runs a cohort-based, undergraduate research experience in the social sciences, and is being woven into all activities, from design to implementation, including co-teaching seminar meetings and working closely with lab students.
Increasing Student Engagement: Embedding in Undergraduate Research Experiences
1. * While the errors are our own, we’d like to thank Dr. LA Wilson for release time to prepare the National Science Foundation grant
proposal that helped to generate this presentation (and others), Dr. Lori Bechtel, Dr. Ken Womack, and Dr. Tim Slekar for their ongoing
support of the Integrated Social Science Research Lab for our undergraduate students, and Dean Barbara Dewey for supporting our
National Science Foundation grant proposal and “letting Jeff play in the sandbox with the rest of us.” These ideas have been presented
at the 2013 PA Forward Information Literacy Summit and Library 2.012, Worldwide Virtual Conference.
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3. 1. Shumaker, D., & Talley, M. (2009). Models of Embedded Librarianship Final Report (p. 195). Alexandria, Va.: Special Libraries
Association. Retrieved from http://hq.sla.org/pdfs/EmbeddedLibrarianshipFinalRptRev.pdf
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2. Dewey, B. I. (2006). The Embedded Librarian: Strategic Campus Collaborations. Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 19(1), 5–17.
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3. Siess, J. (2010). Embedded Librarianship: The Next Big Thing? Searcher, 18(1), 38–45.
6. Resource support and archival training for the African
reference transaction?
American Heritage Undergraduate Research Project?
request fulfillment?
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8. 1. Everett, H. L., Nairn, K., & C. A. Stoch. (2011). Putting Undergraduate Research on the Map for Women. Council on
Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 32 (2), 2-9. Web edition, available at:
http://www.cur.org/quarterly/dec11/EverettWeb.pdf Accessed May 16, 2012.
2. Estes, Cheryl. (2004). Promoting Student-Centred Learning in Experiential Education. Journal of Experiential Education,
27(2), pp. 141–161.
9. 1. Epstein, A. W., Bras, R., Hodges, K., & Lipson, A. (2007). Team-Oriented, Project-Based Learning as a Path to
Undergraduate Research: A Case Study. Pp. 69-86 In Developing & Sustaining a Research-Supportive Curriculum
edited by Karukstis, K. K., & Elgren, T.E. Washington, D.C.: Council of Undergraduate Research.
2. Firmage, D. H., Tiegtenberg, T. H., & Cole, F. R. (2007). Pp. 87-111 (same book as above).
10. 1. Boise, Robert. 2000. Advice for New Faculty Members. Pearson; 1 edition (January 31, 2000). ISBN-10: 0205281591 .
2. Knapp, Jeff., Eric Charles, and Nicholas Rowland. 2014. ““Retaining Students by Embedding Librarians into Undergraduate Research
Experiences” Reference Services Review.
11. 1. Knapp, J. A. (2012). Plugging the “whole”: Librarians as interdisciplinary facilitators. Library Review, 61(3), 199–214.
doi:10.1108/00242531211259328
Notas do Editor
Project-focused: Rather than only student-focused, our projects span semesters, faculty, and groups of students.Student-involvement at all stages:Early conceptualization, identification of sources, to the communication of scientific research.50/50 faculty-/student-driven projects:Librarians are useful when students do more.1,2Opportunities open up with a librarian on-hand.