discussion with the librarians at the New Bulgarian University

1. Embedded Librarian and
Gamification in Libraries
New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria
May 14, 9-11AM, New Bulgarian University.
Plamen Miltenoff, Ph.D., MLIS
St. Cloud State University
Available at:
https://www.slideshare.net/aidemoreto/embedded-librarian-and-gamification-in-libraries

2. Plan
 Introduce the idea of “Embedded
Librarian”
 Working definition of “Embedded
Librarian”
 Examples of the use of embedded
librarian across the U.S.
 Discussion

3. What is embedded librarianship
 Is the lack of the exact definition an
advantage or disadvantage?
 Does experimentation help or
hinder?
 Would you rather have clear guidelines
or test and tryout?
 Would you study the differences
or the commonalities in the various
approaches?

4. Commonalities
 The old way of providing services is waning out

5. Commonalities
 The necessity to get closer to both students and instructors (no more “us”
and “them”)
 customer-centric versus library-centric
 specialists, not generalitsts
 analysis and synthesis, not simply delivery (advisors, not lecturers)

6. The use of technologies
 Course Management Systems CMS (asynchronous)

7. The use of technologies
 e-conferencing tools (synchronous)

8. Different methodologies
 gaming and gamification?

9. Different content
 Information Literacy?
Or
 Multiliteracies (metaliteracies)

10. Sources
http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/04/12/embedded-librarian-and-gamification-
in-libraries/
 Embedded Librarianship in Online Courses
Instructor: Mimi O’Malley Dates: October 2nd to 27th, 2017
http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/10/03/embedded-librarianship-in-online-courses/
 http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/08/24/embedded-librarian-qualifications/
Tumbleson, B. E., & Burke, J. (. J. (2013). Embedding librarianship in learning
management systems: A how-to-do-it manual for librarians. Neal-Schuman, an
imprint of the American Library Association.

11. Instructional Design
 Different Instructional Design?
http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/10/04/instructional-design-3/
http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/01/04/instructional-design-librarian-2/
http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2015/05/13/instructional-design-2/

12. Plamen Miltenoff, Ph.D., MLIS
St. Cloud State University
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/