Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 168
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Trim: 8½ x 10¾
978-1-4422-6360-4 • Paperback • February 2019 • $76.00 • (£58.00)
978-1-4422-6361-1 • eBook • February 2019 • $72.00 • (£55.00)
Courtney Mlinar is the Head Librarian at Austin Community College Elgin campus where she serves on the Library Leadership, Web, and Information Literacy Teams. Her experience as an embedded librarian includes working with symphony orchestras, liberal arts courses, health science students and faculty, as well as public health missions in Jamaica
Chapter 1. Embedded Librarianship: Defining Moments
Chapter 2. Embedded Librarianship as An Evolving Practice
Chapter 3. SWOT: Analyzing Your Organization
Chapter 4. Analyzing Your Professional Skill Sets and Competencies
Chapter 5. Reflection – Matching Your Personality to An Embedded Role within the Organization
Chapter 6. Creating an Action Plan for an Embedded Program
Chapter 7. Collaborative Action Planning for Embedded Librarianship
Chapter 8. Evaluating and Making Adjustments to Your Plan
Chapter 9. Using Combined Technology and Expert Services in Your Plan
Chapter 10. The Empowered and Successful Embedded Librarian
Embedded and Empowered is highly practical and provides an introduction to embedded librarianship in a systematic way for all kinds of librarianship: academic, public, school, and health science. I recommend this book to any librarian learning about outreach for the first time and seeking strategies for becoming more visible with certain user populations, especially because of the inspired first chapter that gives helpful scripts for describing librarian tasks to novices.
— Technical Services Quarterly
This is a useful resource for librarians considering how to start the process of embedding into a specific organization. It provides a structured and logical way to embed into a group or organization. It also has many helpful resources and references from professional library literature. While other books in this field primarily focus on a specific area of librarianship (i.e. academic), this book gives a broad view of the process.— Doody's Review Service
Grounded in research and real-world examples, this book is a great resource for librarians looking to build better relationships with external partners. It is full of practical tips and strategies to help you analyze your environment, design a plan, implement it, and then evaluate its effectiveness. — Candice Benjes-Small, head of research, William & Mary Libraries
Chosen as a Doody's Core Title for 2023.
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• Commended, Doody's Core Titles 2020
• Commended, Doody’s Core Titles 2022