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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A librarian is identified who would be able to provide the type of expertise that the course needs.
- An initial meeting is set-up between the subject librarian, the online librarian, the instructional designer, and the course author/instructor.
- The subject librarian takes the embedded librarian course in Canvas that provides professional development about online learning, our students, and best practices for embeddedness.
- 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.
- Assessments are distributed towards the late middle of the semester to assess overall quality and use of the program.
- Plans and iterations are made for future semester integrations.