In Bell and Shank’s (2011) perspective a blended librarian is a “compassionate and disruptive innovator on their campuses” who is more responsive to the contemporary changes affecting higher education. The principle shared by Bell and Shank (2011) is that the academic librarian should be an integral educational partner as well as a catalyst for students’ knowledge enrichment and intellectual inquiry. Thus the academic librarian should be aligned to the mission of the university or college where they practice.