Embedded Librarian Services Grant: Request for Proposals

The OSU Health Sciences Library (HSL) is offering OSU health sciences colleges, Wexner Medical Center and James Cancer Hospital clinical and research departments the opportunity to apply to receive the services of an embedded librarian. An embedded librarian would help support and enhance the use of information resources in research, teaching and/or patient care.

Embedded librarians are health sciences librarians who focus on meeting the information needs of specific customer groups. They often spend a majority of their time working alongside their customers instead of in the Library. Embedded librarians’ skills and expertise include, but are not limited to:

expert searching of the literature and critical appraisal for problem solving and clinical decision making
indexing and classification of information for specific purposes
providing tailored education and curricular input that enhances knowledge about information literacy/competencies and evidence based practice

This award's purpose is to lend efficiency and forward momentum to a program, project or initiative that is a current priority for a health sciences college, clinical or research department. We believe that embedding librarians into research, teaching or patient care teams allows those teams to improve the capture, organization, management, application and use of biomedical literature and data. We would like to explore ways in which this can be true at Ohio State. This program also aims to attain the HSL mission of "connecting people with knowledge to encourage inquiry, innovation and collaboration."

Full Request for Proposals

Grant Application

Supporting Materials

Questions may be submitted to education@osumc.edu.