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Title:
Becoming confident teachers : a guide for academic librarians
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Chandos information professional series
Publication Information:
Oxford : Chandos Publishing, 2011
Physical Description:
xviii, 227 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781843346296

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Summary

Becoming Confident Teachers examines the teaching role of information professionals at a time of transition and change in higher education. While instruction is now generally accepted as a core library function in the 21st century, librarians often lack sufficient training in pedagogy and instructional design; consequently finding their teaching responsibilities to be stressful and challenging. By exploring the requirements and responsibilities of the role, this book guides teaching librarians to a position where they feel confident that they have acquired the basic body of knowledge and procedures to handle any kind of instructional requests that come their way, and to be proactive in developing and promoting teaching and learning initiatives. In addition, this book suggests strategies and methods for self-development and fostering a "teacher identity," giving teaching librarians a greater sense of purpose and direction, and the ability to clearly communicate their role to non-library colleagues and within the public sphere.


Author Notes

Claire McGuinness is a part-time lecturer in the School of Information and Library Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland. She has been teaching and researching information literacy for more than a decade, and was awarded a PhD. in 2005. Claire has published a number of articles and book chapters on information literacy and academic-librarian collaboration, and has presented her work at several international conferences. Currently teaching two information literacy-oriented modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level, Claire is also a member of the Working Group on Information Literacy of the Library Association of Ireland.