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.
Key to the book is the examination of the roles and responsibilities of academic teaching librarians in the digital era, looking at the essential areas of development, skills and knowledge that will empower current and future teaching librarians to perform well in these roles. The theme of reflective practice runs throughout the book which also features numerous exercises and real world illustrations.
This book will be relevant for all academic library professionals, including students on MLIS programmes who wish to pursue an instructional role in their work and to develop this aspect of their professional lives in a holistic way throughout their careers. It is suitable for early career professionals at the start of their teaching journey, as well as mid- and late-career librarians who may have moved into managerial roles, and who wish to advance their teaching role to the next level. It is also a useful resource for LIS instructors who teach courses on instructional skills for information professionals.
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Claire McGuiness is Assistant Professor, Deputy Head of School, and Director of Undergraduate Programmes in the UCD School of Information and Communication Studies, (ICS), Ireland. She has been teaching and researching information and digital literacy for two decades, and was awarded a PhD in Library & Information Studies in 2005. Claire has published numerous articles and book chapters on information and digital literacy, and is author of Becoming Confident Teachers: A Guide for Academic Librarians (2011) and Digital Detectives: Solving Information Dilemmas in an Online World (2016), with Dr. Crystal Fulton. She is a qualified librarian, and received her MLIS degree from UCD in 1995.