Beyond the library: reflections from a librarian in an academic faculty.

I spent a year carrying out two job roles at York St John University. Half of my time was spent as Academic Support Librarian for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, based in the library and responsible for promoting its information literacy strategy in the faculty to which I was linked. The other half of my time was spent in the faculty itself as Assistant Health Information Specialist, working with the Lecturer in Research and Evidence Based Practice and supporting her in her information skills teaching and carrying out literature searches for researchers in the faculty. By having a foot in both camps, I came to better understand the need for effective collaboration between the two.