Embedded Library Practices in Africa: A Literature Review
Embedded Library Practices in Africa: A Literature Review
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2018
Authors
Owusu-Ansah M., Christopher
Mensah, Micheal
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All Nations University Journal of Applied Thought (ANUJAT)
Abstract
Embedded library practices are being adopted in many
academic libraries to integrate librarians in the research
agenda of their institutions. The purpose of this study was to
explore the changing role of embedded librarians in
academic libraries and how African academic libraries,
particularly, in Uganda, Ghana, and Nigeria are exploiting
this practice to promote their expertise. The study employs a
literature review approach by analysing the extant literature
on the subject. The review revealed that most embedded
librarianship takes the form of a librarian taking on a dual
role as teacher-librarian teaching information literacy or as a
co-teacher in another subject who helps with information
literacy and research writing around that subject. In some
other instances, librarians are involved in online
programmes to compliment information literacy skills. Most
significantly, the review has brought to the fore the challenge
of limited literature on embedded librarianship on the
African continent. However, in the selected cases in which
the literature was reviewed, it was found that a number of
practices are being adopted by libraries and librarians, albeit
unconsciously, to integrate the library into the work of
researchers in their institutions.
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Mensah, M. I. C. H. A. E. L., & Owusu-Ansah, C. M. (2018). Embedded library practices in Africa: A literature review. All Nations University Journal of Applied Thought, 6(1), 126-143.