Editorial

The Place of Teaching in Librarians' Work

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https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v9.42127

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teaching, pedagogy, librarian roles

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Lindsay McNiff, Dalhousie University

Lindsay McNiff (she/her) is a Learning and Instruction Librarian and the liaison librarian for the Centre for Learning and Teaching, the English Department, and the Department of Information Science at Dalhousie University. She also teaches graduate courses in the Department of Information Science on information services and information literacy instruction. Her research interests include LIS education, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and labour in academic libraries. 

Karen P. Nicholson, University of Guelph

Karen P. Nicholson (she/her) is Associate Librarian at the University of Guelph and Assistant Professor (Limited Duties) at Western University. She holds a PhD (LIS) from Western University and her research focuses on academic libraries, critical librarianship, information literacy, time/space, and higher education.

Silvia Vong, University of Toronto

Silvia Vong (she/her) is former Associate Chief Librarian, Scholarly, Research and Creative Activities at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly X/Ryerson University). She has a MLIS (Western) and a M.Ed. with a focus on e-learning. Silvia is a Ph.D. candidate at OISE at the University of Toronto, looking at neoliberal conventions and their impact on equity, diversity, inclusion as well as anti-racism work in Canadian universities. Her professional research interests focus on critical practice in the profession and teaching information literacy with special collections. 

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2023-12-19

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McNiff, Lindsay, Karen P. Nicholson, and Silvia Vong. 2023. “Editorial: The Place of Teaching in Librarians’ Work”. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship 9 (December):1-6. https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v9.42127.

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Vol. 9 (2023): including Special Focus on The Place of Teaching in Academic Librarians’ Work

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Special Focus on The Place of Teaching in Academic Librarians’ Work

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