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1. Courtney Mlinar
SCRLC 2015

2. Public Libraries

3. Samuel Swett Green:
Librarians should -
 Help the reader
 Mingle with the reader

4. Poll #2:

5.  Early 2000’s…

6.  Discussion begins again in 2004…

7. 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.

8.  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

11. Barbara Dewey (2004):
- Integral part of the whole
- Experiencing, observing daily life of another
group
- Value-added services

12.  Researcher
 Content manager
 Teacher
 Patient advocate

15. Poll #3

16. How do they access you?

17. - So why are we staying in the library?

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

19. Librarian-centric:
 Skills
 Knowledge
 Ability to connect and collaborate

20. Librarians
Not
Libraries

22.  Putting ourselves out there
 Reference interviews outside the library
 Finding connections

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

26.  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

28.  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

29. Poll #4

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

31. Where is it strategically important to embed the
librarian?
 Education
 Research
 Patient care
Build a presence physically, virtually, culturally

32. 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

33. Bringing librarians into the conversation…

34.  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

35. Value-added services…
Library and Health Records
Contextual information
Integrating point-of-care resources

36. Educational initiatives:
 Digital literacy
 Library as a learning center…
…Librarian as a learning facilitator

37. Medicine is mobile-
Librarian support for mobile users
Newsletter of apps

38. Collaborations:
Health literacy and writing a consent form

44.  Reference Librarian
 Informationist
 Information Specialist
 Educational Technologist

45. How do you identify yourself? Poll #5

46.  Preserve knowledge
 Keepers of information

47.  More ideas for Embedded Librarianship
 Not in the Literature

48.  http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/docs/annualr
eport/ULC_Sustainable_Communities_Full_Re
port.pdf
 This publication is a statement on the
significant role of public libraries in achieving
local sustainability.

49.  http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2013/04/co
mmunity-centered-23-reasons-why-your-
library-is-the-most-important-place-in-
town/

50.  http://nnlm.gov/outreach/community/guide
s/index.html

51.  http://www.pps.org/reference/schull/

52.  http://www.bl.uk/familyhistory.html
 British Library partnership with various
organizations

53.  http://www.sno-isle.org/catalog/photos/
 http://www.minnesotahistorycenter.org/libra
ry-partnership-materials

54.  http://library-maker-
culture.weebly.com/makerspaces-in-
libraries.html

55.  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

56. 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)

57.  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.”

58. Collaborators in knowledge production:
 Organization
 Classification
 Access
 Intellectual freedom
 Privacy

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

60.  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

61.  Leadership
 Communication
 Empowerment

62. Reference transactions
To
Integrative relationships

63.  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

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

65. Journalists in Iraq war comparison
 Direct interaction within partnerships
 Librarian observes, shares experiences with
external group
 Comprehensive collaboration

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

67. Shared vision with the group you want to
embed-
 What are they trying to accomplish?
 Think Librarian, not Library
 Think outside the box

68.  Librarian as key to success
 Fruitful partnerships built on understanding
of needs
 Library as new Salon

69.  Center of influence
 Mixing the disciplines
 Bringing people together (synergy)
 Culture of connections

70.  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

71.  Partners with administrators
 Subject specialists or liaisons
 Research support
 Grant or fundraising expertise
 Technology support
 Involved with content in curriculum
 Homework help
 Resident support
 Volunteers with underserved populations

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

73.  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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80.  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?