Mentoring Teaching Librarians: A Discussion Of Possibilities, Pitfalls, And Best Practices In Supporting New Instruction Colleagues In Your Library
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Steve Cramer, Business Librarian (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: How do librarians learn to teach? Most people studying to be teachers spend years studyingcontent and pedagogy and developing relationships with other teachers. Then they engage instudent teaching before graduating and getting a job in a school.However, a library student might have a single class in information literacy instruction. If thestudent is really lucky, he/she might get an internship opportunity that includes teaching. Butmany early career librarians are thrown into the classroom with no preparation and have to learnhow to teach via trial and error. How can we help these new librarians gear up for teaching?Mentoring is an effective response to this challenge.Our LOEX 2016 program explored the opportunity for new teaching librarians to learn from thepast experiences (good and bad) of veteran librarians, as both new and veteran librarians worktogether to build the future of information literacy. Mentoring can reinvigorate an informationliteracy program by providing safe feedback and suggestions that result in better teaching, lessstress, and improved morale and job satisfaction.In this article, we elaborate on issues of definition and provide more detailed case studies of ourcurrent experiences as mentors of new teaching librarians. We conclude with some lessonslearned and recommendations
Mentoring Teaching Librarians: A Discussion Of Possibilities, Pitfalls, And Best Practices In Supporting New Instruction Colleagues In Your Library
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Additional Information
- Publication
- LOEX Conference Proceedings 2016. 13.
- Language: English
- Date: 2022
- Keywords
- academic librarianship, teaching librarians, early career librarians, mentoring ,
information literacy