Librarians in Curriculum SIG - MLA Book Proposal
Ms. VAbooklover
Dear Librarians in Curriculum SIG members:
The MLA Book Panel has been discussing the idea of a work on librarians in the curriculum, specifically health sciences librarians. This topic was pervasive in presentations MLA 2012 and is widely written about in the LIS literature.
The Panel is now seeking an editor(s) for the work.
Below is the scope statement for the work:
Librarians in the curriculum
Librarians continue to expand their roles in the education of health sciences students, moving beyond library tours, traditional bibliographic instruction sessions, and database demonstrations. This volume will describe and provide examples of librarians’ varied roles in the curriculum of health sciences education programs like dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. These roles include classroom instructor, web-based course designer, problem-based learning facilitator, and member of the school’s curriculum committee. Among the challenges librarians face in these new roles are the wide variety of delivery methods and formats and lack of experience or instruction in pedagogy.
Examples to be included are librarians who design and deliver in-person and on-line content in stand-alone courses or sections of larger courses. Course topics include information literacy, evidence-based dentistry-medicine-nursing-etc., and effective searching of the library’s online and print resources. In addition to real-world examples of librarians in the curriculum, the book will include “how-to” sections on such topics as adult learning theory, teaching methods, developing learning objectives, course design, and working with faculty to develop curriculum.
The intended audience is any health sciences librarian who wishes to assist in curriculum development, is faced with teaching for the first time, or veteran instructors who wish to improve and enhance their teaching skills.
If you are interested in serving as editor for this work, please contact me.
Barbara A. Gushrowski, MLS, AHIP
IUSD Library