Short description:

The Academic Teaching Librarian?s
Handbook is a comprehensive
resource on teaching and professional development for information professionals
and instructors at all career stages. It explores the current landscape of
teaching librarianship, and highlights and discusses the important
developments, issues, and trends that are shaping current and future practice.

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Long 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.

'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 Norvaišait?, Information Research

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Table of Contents:

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     

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