Higher education librarians are comfortable and confident with their teaching responsibilities and pedagogical knowledge
| dc.contributor.author | Le, Me-Linh | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-07-11T17:08:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-07-11T17:08:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description | A review of: Bewick, L., & Corrall, S. (2010). Developing librarians are comfortable and confident with their teaching responsibilities and pedagogical knowledge". Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 42 (2), 97-110. Reviewed by Me-Linh Le Health Sciences Librarian, Health Sciences Library, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Email: meplinh.le@usask.ca | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Objective - The primary objective of this study was to gather quantitative information on the need, development, acquisition, and application of pedagogical knowledge by academic librarians with teaching responsibilities. Design - Online survey questionnaire. Setting - Higher-education (HE) institutions (i.e., post-secondary institutions such as colleges and universities) in the United Kingdom. Subjects - Subject librarieans from 82 HE libraries (One from each). Methods - Of the 191 HE institutions in the United Kingdom (determined via a now-unavailable directory), 137 supplied an online staff directory with contact information. One subject librarian from each HE institution was contacted; librarians were selected from the online directory by taking a name systematically from a different point in each listing (i.e., first, second, third, etc). Each librarian was sent an email that contained an introductory message as well as a link to the questionnaire. The online questionnaire was created using Survey Monkey and piloted before and after input. It employed mostly multiple-choice tick boxes as well as open-ended questions and comment boxes. The 35-question survey questionnaire was developed in part through email interviews with two leading researchers in the field (identified via the literature). Responses were received from 82 librarians (60%). The answers were analyzed and cross-tabulated using SPSS. Komogorov-Smirnov tests were done to determine the significance of some results. Open-ended questions and comment boxes were placed into categories using Microsoft Excel to identify patters and themes. Main Results - The 82 librarians who responded to the survey came from a wide variety of backgrounds: the majority were subject librarians from Arts & Humanities (31%), had spent more than ten years in their position (38%), worked full-time (71%), were members of pre-1992 HE institutions (59%), and went by the job title of Subject Librarian (30%) (or a slight variation thereof). | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Vol. 6, No. 2 (2011) | en |
| dc.identifier.other | http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca:80/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/9923/8143 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10388/375 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | University of Alberta Learning Service | en |
| dc.title | Higher education librarians are comfortable and confident with their teaching responsibilities and pedagogical knowledge | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.type | Review |