Embedded Librarian

1. EMBEDDED LIBRARIANS
IN UiTM SELANGOR
Dr. Khasiah Zakaria
Senior Deputy Chief Librarian
Head Of Library Services Department
PTAR Universiti Teknologi MARA Selangor
Kampus Puncak Alam
42300 Bandar Puncak Alam
SELANGOR DE, MALAYSIA
Tel : (+603) - 3258 4006
Email: khasiah62@gmail.com

2. What are our currentcurrent roles?

3. Ideas for innovation
• An embedded librarian provides better access
to the librarian and to the library’s resources.
(Hedreen, 2005 )
• “Embedding librarians brings the learning
process in closer proximity to the scholarship
on which the disciplines are based and to
those that service it-librarians.” (Dewey, 2004)
• “It is used to describe the work of an academic
librarian who participates in an academic
course on an ongoing basis, teaching
information literacy skills.”(Models of
Embedded Librarianship Final Report, SLA,
2007)
• “(Embedded librarianship) emphasizes the
importance of forming a strong working
relationship between the librarian and a group
or team of people who need the librarian’s
information expertise.”(Shumaker, 2012)
 E-Commerce
 Mobile computing
 Cloud computing
 Big data
 Hyper-converged
platforms
 News/ Social Media
 E-Commerce
 Mobile computing
 Cloud computing
 Big data
 Hyper-converged
platforms
 News/ Social Media

4. Engaging information literacy
 Citation managers (Mendeley, Endnotes, Zotero, Wizfolio)
 Format/layouts
 Evaluation of materials
 Scholarly research
 Research methods/Literature reviews
 Publishing/presenting in conferences
 Current awareness services & web alerts
 Bibliometrics
 ORCID id

5. ADMISSION
First Semester
GRADUATION
Final semester

6. “traditional librarian” VS “embedded librarian”
(David, 2012)
 Responsive  Anticipatory
 Individual customer/staff  Team of collaborators
 Standardized  Customized
 Single transactions  Ongoing projects
 Service  Partnership

7. Conclusion

8. PARSON (1959), MILLERSON (1964), etc.
Characteristics of a profession
1.Corpus or body of knowledge
2.System of education & training
3.Standards
4.Service Principle
5.Code of Conduct
6.Professional Association
7.Legal & Public Recognition