Your embedded librarian is available to assist your course in a variety of synchronous, asynchronous, virtual and in-person ways, depending on your class structure and timing.
Communicate with your librarian about how you see their role in the class and ask them if they have suggestions. Provide the librarian with a copy of your syllabus. Include the librarian on your class email list so that they may keep up with class communications. Your librarian will not be attending your class sessions unless specifically invited for targeted workshops, and therefore inclusion in class emails is a great way for them to understand the pace of the class.
Introduce the librarian to your class! Ask your librarian to pop in to your classroom to discuss their role and how to best contact them. If your librarian can not make a physical appearance in your class early in the semester, ask your librarian to record a quick introductory video that they can email to the class or you may show in class.
Available/Optional tasks for your librarian:
- Supplemental Materials - Awareness of current topics/projects allows your librarian to preemptively prep and provide library resources, additional literacy content and research guides. This content may be requested by you or may be suggested by the librarian.
- Instruction - Librarians may provide workshops to your students at your discretion. These workshops may be given in your classroom or within the L-building computer room.. Additionally, your librarian may prepare short, recorded mini-workshop videos to your class on topics relevant to the course (for example, how to format a hanging indent or how to do a source evaluation of a website). Although your librarian is not responsible for grading you may use them as a resource for information literacy content to be used in formative and summative assessments.
- Office Hours - Your students may appreciate librarian office hours as a way to efficiently get their research questions answered by a familiar face. Ask your librarian when they are working at the Merritt Library Reference Desk and encourage your students to visit in person or via the virtual chats during those times.
