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Title Virtually embedded : the librarian in an online environment / edited by Elizabeth Leonard and Erin McCaffrey
Published Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 188 pages) : illustrations
Contents Online embedded librarians : a review and overview / Linda Frederiksen and Sue F. Phelps -- Embedded librarians : evolving and expanding in higher education / Audrey Donaldson and Alyssa M. Valenti -- Sustainable embedded librarianship to foster research skills in an online graduate program / Swapna Kumar, Kristin Heathcock, and Marilyn N. Ochoa -- Embedded librarian in a military distance education program / Catrina Whited, Bridget A. Powell, and Gail Nicula -- From the Antipodes : embedded librarians at the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand / Alison Fields and Philip Clarke -- Web 2.0 toolkit : a guide for virtually embedded librarians / Chanitra Bishop and Christina Sheley -- Avoiding curricular combat fatigue : embedding librarians in e-learning to teach the teacher / Kathleen A. Langan -- Not just an afterthought : involving librarians in the instructional design process / Alex Mudd, Terri Pedersen Summey, and Matt Upson -- Win-win : embedding future librarians to extend service to online classes / Timothy Peters and Julie LaDell-Thomas -- Embedding in the LMS : faculty evaluations of a low-touch widget / Amy R. Hofer and Karen Munro -- Linking to course-specific and subject-specific libGuides from Blackboard / Pru Morris and Deirdre R. McDonald -- MOOCs : getting involved / Elizabeth Leonard and Erin McCaffrey
Summary The rise of online education at institutions of higher learning, together with the increasing cost of higher education, lead some to suggest that online (or distance) education will eventually become the dominant form of higher learning. This has particular significance for librarians. This casebook, a blueprint for embedding academic librarians in online environments, from undergraduate to science-based graduate schools to MOOCs is the first to explore how librarians can play a key role in the virtual academic landscape. The authors, academic librarians representing a broad range of colleges
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Academic libraries -- Relations with faculty and curriculum.
Academic librarians -- Effect of technological innovations on
Libraries and distance education.
Electronic reference services (Libraries)
Information literacy -- Web-based instruction
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
Academic libraries -- Relations with faculty and curriculum
Electronic reference services (Libraries)
Libraries and distance education
Form Electronic book
Author Leonard, Elizabeth, 1971- editor.
McCaffrey, Erin, editor.
ISBN 9780838986851
0838986854
9780838986868
0838986862