annotation: training for librarians-as-educators
As part of my academic library course this term, I need to create weekly 'annotations' on a paper, totaling no more than 100 words. This is one of them.
Surveys show that academic librarian jobs almost always include an aspect of librarian-as-educator: “…expected to contribute to initiatives relevant to teaching, learning, and research in an academic environment.”
It would seem critical for librarians to gain skills as educators as part of the LIS curriculum. Yet, librarians felt that there wasn’t enough emphasis on learning how to teach, and that the necessary skills instead came from self-teaching, other librarians, and continuing education. In the curriculum, class presentations are the norm, but formalized instructional training is mostly absent. Graduating librarians need the preparation and skills to be educators in their future careers.
Yvonne Nalani Meulemans, Jennifer Brown. (2001). Educating instruction librarians: A model for Library and Information Science education. Research Strategies. 18(4): 253-264.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W60-48W8JS6-3/2/48ea7b6e4edee07b432d25575af5f45a)
