The Blended Librarian: Blending Instructional Design, Technology, and Librarianship

Well I think I've found my tribe! The Blended Librarian according to Jennifer Howard in her August 2, 2010 Chronicle article "a fairly new model of academic librarianship that took root about five years ago. It combines traditional reference skills with hardware and software know-how and an interest in applying them to curriculum development and teaching." I went to the Blended Librarian Online Learning Community website. There's lots of free webcasts, digital learning resources, and information literacy links. Mark McBride, a blended librarian at Buffalo State is profiled in Howards article. McBride teaches the basics of 21st-century information literacy. The Chronicle asked Mr. McBride to lay out some of those basics.

"First you have to understand the nature of information," he said. "You have to identify what you need and be able to understand why you need it, and at the same time, if you’ve located something, understand who created it and why they created it."