Strategic focus of the program

Guiding principles

The Library strives to keep the program relevant to students, adopting a collaborative approach when developing the resources and support provided to a subject.
We follow these guiding principles when designing the experience for your students:

• Content delivered to a subject is contextualised
• We scaffold support across a course to ensure students are building on skills they already have
• We endeavour not to duplicate a class within the same course, but will link back to previous resources to assist students when required
• We promote the prior learning students may have done in previous subjects and
• We focus on the unique skills required in a subject and develop these in conjunction with the standard Information & Research Literacy skills.

When is a subject right for the Embedded Program?

To keep the Embedded Librarian Program sustainable and relevant to students, we look at a number of element to assess whether a subject is a good candidate for the program.

Subject content

• What are the subject’s learning outcomes – do they include Information & Research literacy?
• What are the subject’s assessment tasks – do they involve any elements of Information & Research Literacy?

Course content

• Is the subject a core subject in the course?
• Is it a high risk subject with high attrition rates, or students with low SE levels?
• Where does the subject fit into the course – what level is the subject?
• Do the assessments in this subject require specific skills or knowledge that has not yet been covered in other subjects?
• Are we already embedded elsewhere in the course?
• Is this subject a better fit for the program than a subject we’re already involved in?