The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 20. January 2021
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-1-78330-463-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook is a comprehensive resource for academic library professionals and LIS students looking to pursue a teaching role in their work and to develop this aspect of their professional lives in a holistic way throughout their careers. The book is built around the core ideas of reflective self-development and informed awareness of one's personal professional landscape. Through engaging with a series of exercises and reflective pauses in each chapter, readers are encouraged to reflect on their professional identity, self-image, self-efficacy and progress as they consider each of the different aspects of the teaching role.
This handbook will:
provide a comprehensive resource on teaching, professional development and reflective practice for academic teaching librarians at all stages of their careers
explore the current landscape of teaching librarianship in higher education, and highlight the important developments, issues and trends that are shaping current and future practice
examine the roles and responsibilities of the academic teaching librarian in the digital era
introduce the essential areas of development, skill and knowledge that will empower current and future professionals in the role
inspire prospective and current academic teaching librarians to adopt a broad conception of the role that goes beyond the basic idea of classroom-based teaching, and provide practical tools to engage in personal development and career planning in this area.
The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook is an indispensable reference, suitable for early career professionals at the start of their teaching journey, as well as mid- or late-career librarians who may have moved into leadership and managerial roles and who wish to advance their teaching role to the next level.
This handbook will:
provide a comprehensive resource on teaching, professional development and reflective practice for academic teaching librarians at all stages of their careers
explore the current landscape of teaching librarianship in higher education, and highlight the important developments, issues and trends that are shaping current and future practice
examine the roles and responsibilities of the academic teaching librarian in the digital era
introduce the essential areas of development, skill and knowledge that will empower current and future professionals in the role
inspire prospective and current academic teaching librarians to adopt a broad conception of the role that goes beyond the basic idea of classroom-based teaching, and provide practical tools to engage in personal development and career planning in this area.
The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook is an indispensable reference, suitable for early career professionals at the start of their teaching journey, as well as mid- or late-career librarians who may have moved into leadership and managerial roles and who wish to advance their teaching role to the next level.
Reviews / Votes
'I have admired the easy to read but very professional language of the author and also explored the methods and techniques that she has used throughout the text as educational devices: personal reflection points, cleverly constructed exercises, usage of layout means, structuring of the text and figures. This book is definitely for librarians, but also for students of information science and their teachers.'Ona Norvaisaite, Information Research
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
594 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78330-463-9 (9781783304639)
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The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook
E-Book
01/2021
Facet Publishing
€83.99
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Person
Claire McGuinness is Assistant Professor and current Deputy Head of School at the School of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland. She has a long-term interest in researching and teaching information and digital literacy and has published extensively in these areas and others including academic librarianship, reflective practice and teaching skills for librarians. She has designed and taught multiple information and digital literacy modules over the past two decades, and currently leads several courses on the MLIS and BSc Social Sciences programmes at UCD. Since 2004, her advanced teaching librarian course on the MLIS and Diploma programmes at UCD has prepared trainee librarians for the instructional work that is increasingly part of their professional remit in different sectors.
Content
Introduction
Part 1 Constructing the academic teaching librarian
1 Shaping the academic teaching librarian
1.1 Introduction: critical issues for academic teaching librarians
1.2 Conceptions of literacy: terminology and the academic teaching librarian
1.3 New frameworks: information literacy in context
1.4 Critical information literacy
1.5 Social media and filter bubbles: the rise of 'fake news'
1.6 Learning analytics
1.7 E-research and datafied scholarship
2 Defining the academic teaching librarian
2.1 Introduction: who is the academic teaching librarian?
2.2 Professional identity and 'teacher identity'
2.3 Roles and responsibilities of academic teaching Librarians
2.4 The information-literate self
2.5 Reflective practice for academic teaching librarians
2.6 Developing a personal teaching philosophy
3 Becoming an academic teaching librarian
3.1 Introduction: choosing the academic teaching librarian pathway
3.2 Looking inwards: self-analysis and the teaching role
3.3 Does a 'teaching personality' exist?
3.4 Mapping your teaching profile
3.5 Planning and developing your teaching role
3.6 Keeping current with teaching trends
3.7 Documenting and showcasing your work; teaching portfolios for librarians
Part 2 Excelling as an academic teaching librarian
4 Technology and the academic teaching librarian
4.1 Introduction: the digital environment for academic teaching librarians
4.2 Teaching, learning and technology - key concepts
4.3 The digital imperative in higher education
4.4 Digital education in higher education (HE): state of the art
4.5 Digital learning and the academic teaching librarian
4.6 Digital learning knowledge domains: a framework for academic teaching librarians
4.7 Levels of skill and expertise for digital learning
4.8 Additional digital learning competence frameworks
4.9 A reflective approach to planning and designing digital learning
4.10 A final word on digital learning
5 Leading and co-ordinating for the academic teaching librarian
5.1 Introduction: leadership, management and culture
5.2 Leadership and the academic teaching librarian
5.3 Coordinating your library's information literacy programme
5.4 Creating an information literacy culture in your institution
5.5 Engaging with the wider community of teaching librarians
6 Advocacy and the academic teaching librarian
6.1 Introduction: reflecting on advocacy
6.2 Advocacy and libraries
6.3 Advocacy and academic teaching librarians
6.4 Information literacy: communicating value
6.5 Ways of engaging in advocacy
6.6 Writing for academic publications: a reflective view
Part 1 Constructing the academic teaching librarian
1 Shaping the academic teaching librarian
1.1 Introduction: critical issues for academic teaching librarians
1.2 Conceptions of literacy: terminology and the academic teaching librarian
1.3 New frameworks: information literacy in context
1.4 Critical information literacy
1.5 Social media and filter bubbles: the rise of 'fake news'
1.6 Learning analytics
1.7 E-research and datafied scholarship
2 Defining the academic teaching librarian
2.1 Introduction: who is the academic teaching librarian?
2.2 Professional identity and 'teacher identity'
2.3 Roles and responsibilities of academic teaching Librarians
2.4 The information-literate self
2.5 Reflective practice for academic teaching librarians
2.6 Developing a personal teaching philosophy
3 Becoming an academic teaching librarian
3.1 Introduction: choosing the academic teaching librarian pathway
3.2 Looking inwards: self-analysis and the teaching role
3.3 Does a 'teaching personality' exist?
3.4 Mapping your teaching profile
3.5 Planning and developing your teaching role
3.6 Keeping current with teaching trends
3.7 Documenting and showcasing your work; teaching portfolios for librarians
Part 2 Excelling as an academic teaching librarian
4 Technology and the academic teaching librarian
4.1 Introduction: the digital environment for academic teaching librarians
4.2 Teaching, learning and technology - key concepts
4.3 The digital imperative in higher education
4.4 Digital education in higher education (HE): state of the art
4.5 Digital learning and the academic teaching librarian
4.6 Digital learning knowledge domains: a framework for academic teaching librarians
4.7 Levels of skill and expertise for digital learning
4.8 Additional digital learning competence frameworks
4.9 A reflective approach to planning and designing digital learning
4.10 A final word on digital learning
5 Leading and co-ordinating for the academic teaching librarian
5.1 Introduction: leadership, management and culture
5.2 Leadership and the academic teaching librarian
5.3 Coordinating your library's information literacy programme
5.4 Creating an information literacy culture in your institution
5.5 Engaging with the wider community of teaching librarians
6 Advocacy and the academic teaching librarian
6.1 Introduction: reflecting on advocacy
6.2 Advocacy and libraries
6.3 Advocacy and academic teaching librarians
6.4 Information literacy: communicating value
6.5 Ways of engaging in advocacy
6.6 Writing for academic publications: a reflective view