3. Bell, Steven J., & Shank, John. (2004). The blended
librarian: A blueprint for redefining the teaching and
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4. 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
5.
6.
7. Barbara Dewey (2004):
- Integral part of the whole
- Experiencing, observing daily life of another
group
- Value-added services
18. Get out of the library
Find new ways to relate to your users
Build relationships
Collaborate
Learn about parent organization
19. 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
20. 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
21. Team teaching
Interdisciplinary collaborations
Shared vision
Sequential learning
Teachers model collaborative relationships
Shared learning process
Social learning from different perspectives
22. Where is it strategically important to embed the
librarian?
Education
Research
Patient care
Build a presence physically, virtually, culturally
23. 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
25. 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
37. 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
38. 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)
39. 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.”
43. 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
46. 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=art
icle&op=viewFile&path[]=v7i2p108&path[]=168
Systematic reviews for fundraising or
benchmarks
http://guides.library.tamu.edu/systematicreviews
47. Dewey, Barbara I. (2004). The Embedded
Librarian: Strategic Campus Collaborations.
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48. Journalists in Iraq war comparison
Direct interaction within partnerships
Librarian observes, shares experiences with
external group
Comprehensive collaboration
49. Be open to taking risks
Team partner, not please
Get management support
Build alliances
Explore your organization
50. Shared vision with the group you want to embed-
What are they trying to accomplish?
Think Librarian, not Library
Think outside the box
51. Librarian as key to success
Fruitful partnerships built on understanding
of needs
Library as new Salon
52. Center of influence
Mixing the disciplines
Bringing people together (synergy)
Culture of connections
53. 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
54. Partners with administrators
Subject specialists or liaisons
Research support
Grant or fundraising expertise
Technology support
Involved with content in curriculum
Homework help
Resident support
55. Bowler, Meagan, & Street, Kori. (2008).
Investigating the efficacy of embedment:
experiments in information literacy integration.
Reference Services Review 36, 438-449.
56. 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
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63. 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?