Embedded students? Can libraries benefit from students having work placements in the library in planning library instruction?

• Main Author: Hilde Terese Drivenes Johannessen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: openjournals.nl 2019-11-01
• Series: Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
• Subjects: library instruction; teaching; embedded students; integrated teaching; generic skills; subject specific skills
• Online Access: https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/10736
• ISSN: 2213-056X

This article discusses how students can be more integrated in developing library instruction and what advantages that can provide for librarians planning their teaching. The students seem to have a different starting point as to how important the librarians’ knowledge of the subject at hand is and whether or not library instruction should be an integrated part of the course.