The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook

Name: The Academic Teaching Librarian's Handbook
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781783304622
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By Claire McGuinness

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The Academic Teaching Librarian’s Handbook by Claire McGuinness is a comprehensive guide for academic library professionals and LIS students aiming to develop their teaching roles. It emphasises reflective self-development and awareness of one’s professional context, offering exercises and reflective pauses in each chapter. The book explores the evolving landscape of teaching librarianship in higher education, the responsibilities of teaching librarians in the digital era, and essential skills for career advancement. Practical tools encourage a broad understanding of the teaching role beyond traditional classroom instruction.
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This book is ideal for early career academic librarians embarking on teaching roles, mid- and late-career professionals seeking to enhance their teaching, and LIS students preparing for academic teaching responsibilities.

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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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.

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Ona Norvaišaitė, Information Research, praises the book for its readable yet professional language and effective use of educational techniques such as personal reflection points and exercises. She recommends it not only for librarians but also for information science students and educators.

Book Details

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ISBN: 9781783304622

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 January 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Facet Publishing

Audience: Professional and scholarly

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Weight: 250g

Pages: 260

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About the Author

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.