- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of tables
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The evolving role of the teaching librarian
- Chapter 2: Teaching librarians: 10 concepts shaping the role
- Abstract:
- Developing a ‘teacher identity’
- Reflective practice
- 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
- Action research in practice
- Reinvigorated strategies for collaboration
- Advocacy – spreading the word
- Exercises and reflections
- Chapter 3: Preparing teaching librarians for practice: focusing on the basics
- Abstract:
- What are the basics?
- Conceptualising information literacy
- Articulating the educational mission of the library
- Learning theories
- Broad learning frameworks
- 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
- Promotion and outreach
- Exercises and reflections
- Chapter 4: Confidence-zappers and how to handle them
- Abstract:
- ‘Attendance at our elective information literacy workshops is poor – what can I do to encourage students to sign up?’
- ‘How can I facilitate active learning with such a large group of students? Is it possible to do more than lecture?’
- ‘I’m having trouble keeping the students interested in class – they seem bored and unmotivated. Is there anything I can do?’
- ‘It seems like everyone on campus is using the VLE/CMS for their teaching, and I feel left behind – how can I get started with it?’
- ‘I have to teach a group of adult learners and I find it intimidating – how can I live up to their expectations?’
- ‘A lecturer has asked me to give a one-hour session with her class, but no specific idea of what she wants me to cover – how can I develop an effective session?’
- Exercises and reflections
- Chapter 5: Personal and professional development as a teaching librarian
- Abstract:
- Evaluation of teaching performance
- Student evaluation of teaching
- Peer evaluation of teaching
- Applying for teaching grants and awards
- Teaching portfolios
- Reflective journals and blogs
- Mentoring
- Professional learning communities
- Creating and sustaining communities of practice
- Publishing in journals and presenting at conferences
- Exercises and reflections
- Chapter 6: What librarians think: teaching and learning in the real world
- Abstract:
- Librarians’ work roles, training and involvement in teaching
- Involvement in teaching networks and communities
- Teaching grants and awards
- 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
- Academic librarians’ experience of teaching: a short survey
- References
- Index
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