1. librarians who love to teach: study results
April Cunningham, Ed.D.
Library Instruction
Coordinator

2. background
I’m reporting the results of my research. I conducted this study for my dissertation in community college leadership at Cal State Fullerton. I took a sabbatical in the spring and was able to finish my dissertation in May.
Librarians teach a part of Academic Literacy, a term used to describe skills and habits of successful students. We specifically call it Information Competency. Librarians’ mission is to support students’ development as independent learners, so I think they’re a very worthy subject of study.

3. purpose + methods
I’ve been a librarian for almost 10 years and I needed to know how librarians stayed committed to their work and happy.
16 librarians responsible for instruction at 13 colleges in southern California
By haikugirloz

4. findings: passion + ambition
Types of teaching
By jonasflanken

5. findings: complexity
Content changes more quickly than other academic literacy topics
Paths don’t always lead where you think
Creating the context in which their teaching can be effective
Within the library
At the college
At the state
By susanvg

6. findings: frustration
With local budget priorities
With state budget priorities
With faculty

7. theory
Epistemological Paradigm: Expert Knowledge / Networked Knowledge
Professional Paradigm: Library / Librarian
Curricular Paradigm: Integration / Autonomy
Program Paradigm: Tradition / Exploration
Classroom Paradigm:
Service / Teaching
Frustration revealed Paradoxes; problem of creating a context in which our instruction will be meaningful

8. deciding to play
Play
Crozier and Friedberg

9. now what?
So now I’m back with this new insight and we’re in a new building. What am I going to make from this?
By Elizabeth Horan

10. our goal: get embedded
Here’s the librarian action figure taking her services to the bottom of the sea. We want to follow her lead and get out of the library and into the depths where the action is. And so here’s our plan…
By antianki

11. the plan Librarian Integration Assignment Development +
Student Research Consultations
Assignment Development +
Tailored Instruction
Librarian Integration
Embedding a librarian in your class can look like many different things. This shows the spectrum of approaches you can take to embedding a librarian into your course.
Research Consultations are…
Assignment Development involves…
Tailored instruction can look like a class visit, hands-on work in the library, online instruction, or a pathfinder of suggested sources for student research
Librarian integration is the most robust and can include multiple meetings with a class or including the librarian in your Blackboard where she can respond to students’ questions, pose questions to students, and become involved in assessments of student learning

12. Contact me acunningham@saddleback.edu (949) 582-4459
You’re awesome and we’re here to support you in developing your students’ independent learning!