presentation spring 2012 for LIS688

1. Beth Filar Williams
Coordinator of Library Services for Distance Learning
ERIT Department, UNCG Libraries
http://library.uncg.edu/info/distance_education/
efwilli3@uncg.edu
January 26, 2012

2. A. Academic
B. School
C. Public
D. Government/corporate
E. Archives

5.  Embed in online classes
 Button/link/portal pushed into each class
 a librarian in CMS – threaded disc, teaching
sessions, giving actual graded assignments, etc.
 Embed physically in other locations
 Located not in “main library”
 go into classroom in school libraries
 Embed w/in Teaching/Learning Center on campus
 Embed by co-teaching a course or traveling w/ a class

6. From - Siess, J. (2010). Embedded librarianship: the next big thing?. Searcher, 18(1), 38-45.
 Corporate: librarians are moving “into business units, working alongside other
professionals to provide the information needed for informed decisions right at the point of
the decision.”
 Academic: Subject specialists “may work in the building where the majority of their
clientele works, whether or not library materials reside at the same site” OR creating Info
Commons w/ computers & librarians near where student gather like café or dorm
 Public: the modern bookmobile, mini branches in shopping malls, downtown
stores, schools w/o libraries, nursing homes…
 Schools: central tech services & even collections for a district; librarian visits regularly
classrooms and works w/ teacher on research projects etc. instead of students coming to
library room.

7.  Sense of place? Collaborative, neutral, meet-up spot?
 Archives? Unique collections? Book w/ critical
illustrations?
 Computer/internet access for some?
 Loss of our identity as a profession?*

8. • Is it our fiscally & ethical responsibility to save users
time? [Ranganathan's fourth law: Save the time of the Reader]
 supplying them w/ electronic info.
 being at their point of need.
 teaching them to search effectively and evaluate info.
 But how do you get them to seek us for help?
…perhaps embedded librarianship, physical or virtual!

9.  http://dlsplanning2012.pbworks.com - semi-annotated
bibliography on embedded librarianship
 Ranganathan’s Laws of Library Science:
http://www.jdcc.edu/library/RFL.pdf
 Shumaker, D. (2009). Who Let the Librarians Out?
Embedded Librarianship and the Library Manager. Reference
& User Services Quarterly, 48(3), 239-257.
 Siess, J. (2010). Embedded librarianship: the next big
thing?. Searcher, 18(1), 38-45.