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Sinclair (2009) had established that blended  librarianship has be borne out of the need to bring the academic librarian to  his original role of being the de facto  center of information on campus. Sinclair has purported that there is a growing  popularity in learning management systems and several online information that  have marginalized the academic librarian in higher education institutions.  Blended librarianship is therefore envisioned to be the magic formulae that can  reassert the role of the academic librarian in the teaching and learning  process. Authors such as Pasipamire (2012) are advocating for the need of  flexible professionals who can apply both LIS theory and practice in their  roles of information provision and dissemination. A blended librarian can be  seen fulfilling this role it we take Bell and Shank’s definition of a blended  librarian (2007: 3) to mean: