One size fits none: Embedded Data Librarianship

One size fits none
Embedded data librarianship
Lynda Kellam
UNCG

Scenario 1
Librarian embedded in the course management system
Participates in discussion board
Creates assignments with professor

Scenario 2
Librarian team teaching with a marketing professor
Evaluates student work
Co-authored textbook

Scenario 3
Librarian teaching subject-specific courses in a department
Incorporates information literacy infused assignments

What do they have in common? Embedded Librarianship

Embedded Librarians
Build relationships with a specific segment of a community
Provide customized and value-added services
Answer to the wide-ranging needs of a specific user community
Contrast with a traditional focus on collections and the library building

“ The librarian becomes a member of the customer community rather than a service provider standing apart.” Shumaker , 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bethcanphoto/140107457/ [cc by 2.0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/edvolunteers/4910706757/ [cc by 2.0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/edvolunteers/4910808629/sizes/z/in/photostream/ [cc by 2.0]

What do embedded librarians do? http://www.flickr.com/photos/spring_dew/285043727/ [cc by 2.0] They balance the traditional with the innovative

But ... what about data?

Statistical Literacy http://www.flickr.com/photos/alun/63548858 [cc by-nc-sa 2.0] http://www.augsburg.edu/ppages/~Schield/ “ critical thinking about statistics as evidence”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/calaggie/3150432640/ [cc by-nc-sa 2.0 Data librarians work with select users and provide complex value-added services

But sometimes there’s a fine balance http://www.flickr.com/photos/delta407/205231875/ [cc by-sa 2.0]

What can we do? create stats lit modules anyone can use teach students how to cite statistics and data embed in a program and create assignments that develop stats lit knowledge promote awareness of data citation with professors and librarians build awareness of stats lit elements in our data products (e.g., Roper Center’s iPoll, the ARDA, ICPSR’s teachingwithdata.org) incorporate stats lit into our understandings of information literacy more ideas here!

Thanks!
One size fits none: Embedded data librarianship
Lynda Kellam
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