Julie de Foubert, an information literacy librarian from DIT discusses the identity of librarians in relation to teaching and how to effectively showcase this teaching identity to other teachers and to students.

1. Context

2. Identity Crisis?
• Teacher librarian
• Embedded librarian
• Information literacy librarian
• Information skills librarian
• Subject librarian
• Information retrieval librarian
• Academic librarian
• Liaison librarian ....etc

4. Faculty
External
Self /
Peers
Perceptions

5. What Helps?

6. Changing Role
•Student expectations
•Range
•EdTech, prep, follow up, assessment, tutorials
•% ?
•60:40

7. Essential
CPD
- Self directed
- Accredited
Reflective
Practice
Current
Awareness

8. Motivation
Student learning
Faculty relationship
Teaching not telling!