Impact of embedded librarianship on undergraduate nursing students’ information skills

Abstract

Background: One-shot library sessions have numerous drawbacks; most notably, they rarely have a long-term impact on students' research behavior or skill sets. Library literature notes that when students interact with an embedded librarian, their skills improve. While close partnerships with subject faculty are important, librarians must also assess students’ skill sets to determine the impact of these teaching efforts.Case presentation: During the course, the embedded librarian used various activities and assignments to teach information-seeking skills, with the expected outcome of increased skill sets. This IRB-approved research project focused on measuring and assessing students’ information-seeking abilities before and after interacting with the embedded nursing librarian. Changes in students' information fluency skills were measured using pre- and post-tests.Conclusions:The study results provide evidence of the benefits of the embedded librarianship model. Continued measurement of students’ skills acquisition is important to enable librarians and library administrators to show the positive impacts the library has on student learning and success.

Theoretical issues in medical library and information sciences' articles published in scopus and web of science databases: A scoping review

“…[ 30 31 32 33 34 ] Another model given attention to in this profession which has more supervision of the professional performance of medical informationists and librarians is the embedding librarianship model, in which its mission, feature, objectives, and performance are discussed in two articles. [ 33 35 ] Embedded librarianship supervises the potentials of librarians in educational, research, and developmental activities such that they are considered the main motivating factor in education, research, and development.…”

Leveraging Online Tutorials and Performance Assessment to Improve Information Literacy Instruction

“…Embedded librarians partner with faculty to provide library resources and instruction beyond the one-shot session. This can manifest in multiple ways, such as being enrolled in the learning management system (LMS) course site, codeveloping the research assignment, and providing feedback on annotated bibliographies and topic statements (Franzen & Sharkey, 2021). Prior to implementing the embedded librarian model, librarians signed up for research days, not to work with specific instructors.…”

Identifying Research-Active Specialists at an Academic Medical Center: A Case Study

“…In the 21st century, medical librarians at academic health centers are challenged to be health informaticists and to connect more intimately with their constituents to facilitate the use of information systems (1,2). One approach is to identify clients who are receptive to being helped and then embed the librarian in the clients' projects, as has been done in a nursing class (3) and in a health science conference (4). More general approaches have looked at systems used across the academic health center with librarians embedded in the system, as with learning management systems (5) or electronic medical records systems (6), or focused on one discipline and making the library a key partner with researchers in that discipline, as illustrated in work with bioinformatics (7).…”