Embedded Librarian
I worked for a medium-sized organization once that had, within the org structure, IT staff working and seated within each operational department. I can't tell you how useful it was to have IT working right there, side-by-side, with staff in the department. They understood the work processes much better than when they were seated together, knew much more of the tacit knowledge of the department, knew the ongoing projects, answered staff queries directly, and were a part of all ongoing departmental communications, meetings and a events.
I've been thinking a lot lately about this structure and how much sense it makes within the context of librarianship. More commonly referred to as the embedded librarian, the idea of having specific researcher and reference librarians that are hired through the various faculties makes a lot of sense to me. The ability to understand the breadth of the courses available within each faculty, the ongoing research of the faculty, etc. cannot be truly understood, I don't think, from the remoteness of the library.
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