This webinar seeks to provide attendees with a detailed, replicable process for implementing embedded library reference and instruction services within an institution’s LMS, regardless of platform. The webinar also shares data that illustrate embedded librarianship’s efficacy at increasing reference transactions, increasing librarian contact hours with students, and increasing student retention.
It’s one thing to provide user services within the walls of the library. However, it's requires a very different set of skills to provide the same level of service to distance students, who only interact with a school through an online environment.
This webinar seeks to provide attendees with a detailed, replicable process for implementing embedded library reference and instruction services within an institution’s LMS, regardless of platform. In addition to best practices, the webinar also shares data that illustrates embedded librarianship’s efficacy at increasing reference transactions, increasing librarian contact hours with students, and increasing student retention.
Elizabeth Dill will demonstrate the tools and methods used at Valdosta State University to meet students at their point of need within an LMS. In addition, she will provide information on how to effectively market the service and how to begin the process of assessing an embedded librarian program at your institution.
Elizabeth Dill is the Regional Librarian of Devry University, serving as the virtual library liaison for the Northwest and Midwest campuses. She has performed in the role and researched online embedded librarianship for five years. Prior to her current position, Elizabeth was the campus librarian at the Art Institute of Tucson, where she oversaw all library operations.
In Odum Library at Valdosta State University, Elizabeth worked as a graduate assistant in the eLearning Center where she studied distance education methodology and technology, and online librarianship. She was a co-covenor for ACRL/Arts Digital Arts Discussion Group and was named a HASTAC Scholar at Duke University. Elizabeth also received the Georgia Archives Advocacy Award from the Georgia Genealogical Society. She presented the embedded librarianship presentation material at Johns Hopkins University, James Madison University and University of Houston.