Document Type
Article
Publication Title
College & Research Libraries News
Publication Date
6-24-2007
Abstract
As the role of instruction and information literacy continues to grow in the academic library, librarians are faced with a need to develop a more focused set of skills to teach effectively in library instruction programs. At the same time, many libraries struggle to offer meaningful training and professional development to improve instruction, especially without a set of established standards for what makes a good instructor. This document is intended to help instruction librarians define and gain the skills needed to be excellent teachers in library instruction programs and to foster collaborations necessary to create and improve information literacy programs.
In many academic libraries, instruction librarians also serve as coordinators of instructional services and as instructional leaders in their organization. In addition to proficiencies needed for librarians with teaching responsibilities are the skills required for instruction coordinators to manage programs. They also must operate effectively at all levels of the academic organization in order to implement broad-reaching curriculum-integrated information literacy programs.
DOI
10.5860/crln.68.9.7871
Recommended Citation
Kahl, Chad M.; Fowler, Clara; Buss, Carla Wilson; and Garcia, Susan Vega, "Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators" (2007). Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library. 17.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fpml/17
Comments
This article was originally published in C&RL News 68, no. 9 (October 2007): 57-75.
https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.68.9.7871