Paper presented at Special Libraries Association 2015 Annual Conference.

Several years ago, a subset of librarians at Salem State University embarked on a journey of embedded librarianship. These collaborations are deeply rooted in the information needs of the students within the discipline, and while there are many commonalities, each experience is unique to the faculty-librarian team. This paper offers our perspectives on our experiences, describes their inception, growth, and development, and offers thoughts on how our work reflects current educational practices. While the thrust of this paper is to describe each collaboration in its distinctiveness, it can be fairly said that each constitutes a species of the embedded genus. What makes embedded librarianship work is its flexibility, which has allowed for unique collaborations to flourish.