Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The evolving role of the teaching librarian
Teaching librarians and the information literacy revolution
Who is the ‘teaching librarian’?
Teaching librarians – what do academics think?
Teaching librarians and professional education
Chapter 2: Teaching librarians: 10 concepts shaping the role
Developing a ‘teacher identity’
Developing a personal teaching philosophy and pedagogical knowledge base
The virtual learning environment
Teaching a diverse student base
Information literacy for graduate students and researchers
Instructional training for librarians
Reinvigorated strategies for collaboration
Chapter 3: Preparing teaching librarians for practice: focusing on the basics
Conceptualising information literacy
Articulating the educational mission of the library
Instructional needs assessment
Writing goals, objectives and intended learning outcomes
Selecting teaching and learning activities
Creating effective learning materials
Aligning assessment with learning outcomes and activities
Chapter 4: Confidence-zappers and how to handle them
Chapter 5: Personal and professional development as a teaching librarian
Evaluation of teaching performance
Student evaluation of teaching
Applying for teaching grants and awards
Professional learning communities
Creating and sustaining communities of practice
Publishing in journals and presenting at conferences
Chapter 6: What librarians think: teaching and learning in the real world
Librarians’ work roles, training and involvement in teaching
Involvement in teaching networks and communities
Librarians’ beliefs about how role is perceived by ‘outsiders’
Librarians’ pre-employment role conceptions compared with current role experience
Librarians’ confidence in teaching
Librarians’ challenges in the teaching role
What do librarians enjoy about teaching?
Librarians’ conceptions of ‘good’ teaching
Librarians’ additional comments about the teaching role