Embedded and Empowered - (Practical Guides for Librarians) by Courtney Mlinar (Paperback)

About the Book

Embedded and Empowered: A Practical Guide for Librarians offers library professionals from all types of libraries a recipe for success in creating successful embedded librarians by providing easy-to-follow instructions, tips, and exercises.

Book Synopsis

Embedded and Empowered: A Practical Guide for Librarians offers library professionals from all types of libraries a recipe for success in creating successful embedded librarians by providing easy-to-follow instructions, tips, and exercises.

Review Quotes

Embedded and Empowered is highly practical and provides an introduction to embedded librarianship in a systematic way for all kinds of librarianship: academic, public, school, and health science. I recommend this book to any librarian learning about outreach for the first time and seeking strategies for becoming more visible with certain user populations, especially because of the inspired first chapter that gives helpful scripts for describing librarian tasks to novices.

Grounded in research and real-world examples, this book is a great resource for librarians looking to build better relationships with external partners. It is full of practical tips and strategies to help you analyze your environment, design a plan, implement it, and then evaluate its effectiveness.

This is a useful resource for librarians considering how to start the process of embedding into a specific organization. It provides a structured and logical way to embed into a group or organization. It also has many helpful resources and references from professional library literature. While other books in this field primarily focus on a specific area of librarianship (i.e. academic), this book gives a broad view of the process.

Chosen as a Doody's Core Title for 2023.

About the Author

Courtney Mlinar is the Head Librarian at Austin Community College Elgin campus where she serves on the Library Leadership, Web, and Information Literacy Teams. Her experience as an embedded librarian includes working with symphony orchestras, liberal arts courses, health science students and faculty, as well as public health missions in Jamaica