Beyond Embedded: Creating an Online-Learning Community Integrating Information Literacy and Composition Courses

This article recounts our experience developing an embedded librarian model which evolved into a fully integrated learning community, pairing online composition with an online information literacy credit-bearing course. Our assessment of student success measures indicate that the positive trends we found under the embedded librarian program have continued to improve under the formal learning community model. We discuss the results of our qualitative and quantitative measures of the program's impact on student success and share our recommendations for further developments.