The aim of this article is to discuss some of the challenges and possibilities that librarians may face when engaging in faculty-library collaboration. The main objective is to present findings from two case studies of embedded librarianship at Gjøvik University College (GUC) and to compare these findings with results from a literature review. The literature review is concentrated around collaboration challenges, a possible role-expansion for librarians, team-teaching and assessment of information skills courses. Another objective is to present two pedagogical approaches that are in use at GUC; the tutor approach and the team-teaching approach. Findings from the case studies suggest that faculty staff were impressed with the librarian’s knowledge and they quickly became comfortable with team-teaching and/or leaving the librarian in charge of the students. However there were concerns from both the teacher and librarian about the time-consuming nature of collaborative work. This paper contributes to the literature through a literature review, two case studies and teaching approaches that highlight factors leading to success when collaborating with faculty.
Alison Pope, Keith Puttick and Geoff Walton have been involved in the information literacy aspects of a project to help students improve their research skills and they report on this and the wider current debates on information literacy with an emphasis throughout on legal research skills.
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415-429(October 2007)M3: Article; Owusu-Ansah, Edward K. 1 Email Address: owusu-ansah@kingsborough.edu; Affiliations: 1: Chief Librarian and Chair of the Robert J. Kibbee Library, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York; Source Information: Oct2007, Vol. 7 Issue 4, p415; Subject Term: ACADEMIC libraries; Subject Term: INFORMATION literacy; Subject Term: ACADEMIC librarians; Subject Term: PUBLIC libraries; Subject Term: SCHOOL libraries; Subject Term: EDUCATION, Higher; Subject Term: LIBRARIES & education; Subject Term: ASSOCIATION of College & Research Libraries; Subject Term: UNITED States; NAICS/Industry Codes: 519120 Libraries and Archives; People: BREIVIK, Patricia Senn; Number of Pages: 15p; Document Type: Article.