Instruction librarians at BGSU will participate in a learning-community model of professional development in order to
The learning-community model encourages reflective practice among participants, making tacit knowledge more explicit and fostering a social network of shared expertise.
Craig Gibson and Jamie Wright Coniglio discuss essential instruction competencies for liaison librarians in their recent chapter "The New Liaison Librarian: Competencies for the 21st Century Academic Library" in The Expert Library: Staffing, Sustaining, and Advancing the Academic Library in the 21st Century. Those competencies related to teaching and learning expertise (pp. 111-112) serve as the primary framework for this LibGuide:
Reference:
Gibson, Craig, and Jamie Wright Coniglio. "The New Liaison Librarian: Competencies for the 21st Century Academic Library." The Expert Library: Staffing, Sustaining, and Advancing the
Academic Library in the 21st Century. Eds. Scott Walter and Karen Williams. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2010. 93-126. Print.
While Gibson and Coniglio provide a forward-looking view of liaison librarianship, ACRL identifies essential proficiences in its Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators. The proficiencies serve as a good reminder of various ways to improve our teaching and collaboration skills in these areas:
References:
Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators.
Association of College and Research Libraries. 24 June 2007. Web. 30
November 2010.
<http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/profstandards.cfm>.
This site was originally created by Catherine Cardwell, Instruction Coordinator.