Academic Library Support in a Blended Learning Environment: The Place of Embedded Librarianship
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2022-02-10
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Technology advancement has led to significant paradigm changes in education. The tradition face-to-face learning is now being supplemented, or in some case, replaced by virtual learning leveraging on modern information technology tools. This practice of mixing traditional and technology in teaching and learning is referred to as blended learning. Academic libraries as designated support institutions for academic activities are also expected to come up with strategies to ensure that both teachers and learners have the necessary support to effectively carry out their teaching, learning and research activities as usual. One of the strategies that have been suggested by scholars is embedded librarianship. This paper explores the strategies that can be adopted by librarians in Nigerian academic libraries to ensure that relevant library information resources and services to both students and lecturers, are embedded into the evolving learning environment for both lecturers and students in tertiary institutions.
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Conference proceedings of the First Conference of the National Institute of Office Administrators and Information Managers (NIOAIM) between 7th and 10th February, 2022 at the International Conference Centre, Lead City University, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
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Academic libraries, Blended Learning, Embedded librarianship, Information Technology, Library Technology.