{"id":19320,"date":"2015-04-04T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19320"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:45:17","slug":"librarians-on-the-loose-at-fhsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19320","title":{"rendered":"Librarians on the loose at FHSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Carrol Haggard, associate professor of communication studies, and Lynn Haggard, distance education services librarian at Fort Hays State University, recently published &#8220;Librarians on the Loose: High Tech and High Touch Research Assistance from Embedded Librarians&#8221; in the 43rd volume of the National Social Science Association Journal.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The article describes a pilot program at FHSU where librarians are &#8220;embedded&#8221; in on-campus social science courses that have a research component. In this model, the library is viewed as a service, not a space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">While traditional embedded librarians serve as a point of contact for providing research assistance, especially within online courses, FHSU expanded this model to incorporate FHSU&#8217;s &#8220;high tech, high touch&#8221; approach to education. &#8220;Librarians on the Loose&#8221; explains it as involving the use of the latest technology for research while emphasizing the human connection between librarians and students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The article also examines the factors associated with the &#8220;High Tech, High Touch&#8221; model&#8217;s success and identifies some of the requirements to sustain the model.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrol Haggard, associate professor of communication studies, and Lynn Haggard, distance education services librarian at Fort Hays State University, recently published &#8220;Librarians on the Loose:&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3398],"tags":[4030,69,131,5319,5320,5318,5317],"class_list":["post-19320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-carrol-haggard","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state","tag-high-tech","tag-high-touch","tag-librarians-on-the-loose-high-tech-and-high-touch-research-assistance-from-embedded-librarians","tag-lynn-haggard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19328,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320\/revisions\/19328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}