A short article by Dani and myself on “Education Training for Instruction Librarians: A Shared Perspective” was published in the latest issue of Communications in Information Literacy. Here’s the abstract:
This article provides an overview of recent literature illustrating a troubling disconnect between (a) the importance of teaching and information literacy instruction for the future of libraries and (b) the apparent lack of education training many librarians receive during library school. We argue that it is essential for the future success of academic libraries that library schools pay greater attention to instructional pedagogy for training library leaders of the future. We then outline several practical strategies drawn from our own experience that library school students and currently practicing professionals can adopt to expand their understanding of instructional pedagogy as a way to improve their practice as teaching librarians.
The piece touches on many issues we think are important for the profession (and also one of the reasons we started this blog). We hope you read the full piece here: (CIL is open access so no log-in required)!
