Process for Adding Embedded Librarian

To ensure quality and good outcomes with the embedded librarian program, we have developed a process for embedding a librarian into Canvas. This process remains flexible depending on your program or individual needs. However, the following steps typically occur in some fashion.

  1. Course(s) are identified as potential good fits for an embedded librarian. Ideal courses are those at a higher level that require students to engage in external research or information literacy constructs like evaluating credibility or determining bias in information sources.
  2. The online librarian reaches out to the program head OR individual faculty/designers contact the library to see about partnering with a librarian on their course. Faculty members submit a brief proposal outlining how they would like to have a librarian be embedded in their course.
  3. A librarian is identified who would be able to provide the type of expertise that the course needs.
  4. An initial meeting is set-up between the subject librarian, the online librarian, the instructional designer, and the course author/instructor.
  5. The subject librarian takes the embedded librarian course in Canvas that provides professional development about online learning, our students, and best practices for embeddedness.
  6. The course development process continues with the team thinking through the best library integrations that work for everyone involved and make sense with the subject matter.
  7. Assessments are distributed towards the late middle of the semester to assess overall quality and use of the program.
  8. Plans and iterations are made for future semester integrations.