Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook

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.

'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 Norvaišaitė, Information Research

• 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