<div>Bell and Shank (2007: 3) caution that blended
librarianship is not synonymous with multi-tasking; rather it is about
“integrating new skill sets from instructional design and technology into one’s
practice and using those skills to better integrate the library into the
teaching and learning process”. In a follow-up article, Bell and Shank (2011)
state that blended librarianship is not library centric (that is, focused on
buildings and collections), rather it is librarian centric (that is, focused on
people’s skills, the knowledge they have and the relationships they build). In
this manner, Bell and Shank (2007: 3) view academic librarians as part
instructional technologists working with faculty to “match the appropriate
technologies to teaching and assisting faculty in the effective use of
technologies for teaching”. <br></div>