Embedded Librarian Ideas: Best Practices Explored and Redefined
This paper explores the multitude of ways in which embedded librarianship can be implemented. Although the paper is primarily targeted to academic librarians in higher education settings, the literature examined and the ideas presented can support secondary and college level inter-disciplinary teaching initiatives. The ideas presented are sourced from scholarly journal articles, monographs, and best practices implemented by the author. Attention is given to programs where Information Literacy is infused into a school’s General Education curriculum. Academic librarian pedagogy, outreach, and networking strategies are also highlighted. The author is especially interested in projects that address student academic success after an embedded program is put into effect. Non-traditional embedded endeavors are especially of interest; programs where academic librarians embed themselves with high schools to support college preparation and readiness are discussed.
Embedded Records Management: A Case Study Emphasizing the Importance of Community as a Key to Success = Gestion des documents intégrée: Étude de cas soulignant l’importance de la communauté comme facteur clé de la réussite
Embedded librarianship has become increasingly common; however, this concept has not been widely applied to other information professions. We first survey the literature on embedded librarianship as a model of service delivery with a view to identifying those criteria that are considered essential to its success. Next, we demonstrate how best practices in embedded librarianship can inspire and inform a similar practice in another sector of the information professions, namely records management. We present and evaluate a pilot project where a records manager was embedded within the quality assurance team in the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Ottawa. In particular, we consider how community-building efforts contributed to the success of this project.Résumé:Bien que la notion de bibliothéconomie intégrée soit de plus en plus connue, cette pratique n’a pas été si bien intégrée dans d’autres métiers de l’information. Nous présentons un survol de la littérature portant sur le bibliothécaire intégré comme modèle de prestation de service afin d’en identifier les critères essentiels de succès. Ensuite, nous démontrons comment les meilleurs pratiques pour la bibliothéconomie intégrée peuvent inspirer et informer des pratiques semblables dans le domaine de gestion des documents électroniques. Finalement, nous présentons et évaluons un projet pilote d’intégration d’un gestionnaire de documents électroniques au sein de l’équipe d’assurance qualité à la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales de l’Université d’Ottawa. Nous considérons particulièrement l’importance des efforts de création de communauté pour le succès du projet.
Initial Teacher Training: the French view
ABSTRACT This paper, against the background of trends in the development of initial teacher training in Europe as a whole, identifies and explains some of the recent, radical reforms which were introduced in France by a socialist government. These include the need to raise the status and the competence of the teaching profession; the creation of new teacher‐training institutions of university status (Instituts universitaires de formation des maitres); the introduction of common entry qualifications at degree level for both primary and secondary levels; the harmonisation and the extension to 2 years of the post‐degree teacher‐training course and the increase in emphasis placed on professional training, both theoretical and practical. These reforms provoked a storm of protest and an examination of the reasons for this reveals a multiplicity of crucial questions which have far‐reaching implications.