The Hunter Librarian

Abstract

This paper reports the evaluation of a five-month project delivering library services to support a new initiative of the University of Otago Faculty of Medicine. The Faculty has revised its undergraduate medical curriculum to place a much greater emphasis on collaborative, case-based, small group and self-directed learning, with patient contact introduced in the first week. This new curriculum demanded a different approach to space provision and a new facility, known as the Hunter Centre, opened in mid-2008 with small and large teaching rooms, study ‘pods’, computer resources room, cafeteria and social spaces – but no library. With a new curriculum and facility, a new approach to Library support was mandated. The core service consisted of a subject liaison librarian, equipped with a laptop and portable phone, without an office, working alongside students and staff in the Hunter Centre. This approach was based on the idea of an information suite (developed by the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University; see www.welch.jhu.edu/services/information_suites.html) which is a model for delivering collaborative information services from a liaison librarian; it does not include a collection of print books and journals and is not a satellite library or dedicated library space.

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