Taking Chances: A New Librarian and Curriculum Redesign

ABSTRACT

As technology becomes ubiquitous in designing and delivering medical school curricula, health sciences librarians can embrace emerging opportunities for participation in curriculum design. A new medical librarian at Michigan State University Libraries engaged her user base outside of established duties, learned new skills, and challenged preconceived notions about librarians’ roles. In the process, she became a partner in copyright education, amended license agreements for enhanced curricular multimedia use, and facilitated curriculum mapping through taxonomy building. These projects helped create the informational foundation for a novel hybrid medical education curriculum and introduced new curricular roles for the librarian.

KEYWORDS:

• Academic health sciences librarians
• collaboration
• curriculum design
• medical education
• role of librarians

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Iris Kovar-Gough

Iris Kovar-Gough, MA, MLIS, AHIP ([email protected]) is Liaison Librarian to the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University Libraries, 366 West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824.