One size fits noneEmbedded data librarianship

Lynda KellamUNCG

Scenario 1• Librarian

embedded in the course management system

• Participates in discussion board

• Creates assignments with professor

Scenario 2

• Librarian team teaching with a marketing professor

• Evaluates student work

•Co-authored textbook

Scenario 3

• Librarian teaching subject-specific courses in a department

• Incorporates information literacy infused assignments

What do they have in common?

Embedded Librarianship

Embedded Librarians

•Build relationships with a specific segment of a community

•Provide customized and value-added services

•Answer to the wide-ranging needs of a specific user community

•Contrast with a traditional focus on collections and the library building

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• “The librarian becomes a member of the customer community rather than a service provider standing apart.” Shumaker , 2009

What do embedded librarians do?

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They balance the traditional with the innovative

But ... what about data?

Statistical Literacy

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http://www.augsburg.edu/ppages/~Schield/

“critical thinking about statistics as evidence”

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Data librarians work with select users and

provide complex value-added services

But sometimes there’s a fine balance

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What can we do?

create stats lit modules anyone can use

teach students how to cite statistics and data

embed in a program and create assignments that develop stats

lit knowledge

promote awareness of data citation with

professors and librarians

build awareness of stats lit elements in our data products (e.g., Roper Center’s

iPoll, the ARDA, ICPSR’s teachingwithdata.org)

incorporate stats lit into our understandings of information

literacy

more ideas here!

Thanks!One size fits none: Embedded data librarianship

Lynda Kellam@lyndamk

lmkellam@uncg.edu