Management of library pedagogical development

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Pedagogical development at Karolinska Institute
University Library a management perspective

• David Herron, PhD
• Akureyri 2003

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Karolinska Institute and the Karolinska Institute
University Library
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Karolinska Institute (KI)

• Medical University in Stockholm, Sweden
• 6000 graduates
• 2000 doctoral students
• 18 study programmes
• Lots of free-standing courses
• Nobel prize in physiology or medicine

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Karolinska Institute University Library (KIB)

• Swedish national resource library for medicine
• 128 staff
• KIB on 2 sites in Stockholm
• 90 million SEK turnover
• 30 external income
• 2,8 university turnover (3 billion SEK)
• 555,000 visitors yearly
• 5000 e-journals

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KIBs organisation

• flat hierarchy
• team-orientation
• generalist orientation
• relatively young staff
• complex/chaotic
• positive working climate

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User-education details
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User-education/year

• 345 courses
• average 3,6 hr/course
• average preparation time 1,6 hr/course
• 2000 teaching hours
• 6-8 working years
• 5 of librarys work
• income1,1 million SEK

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Participants 1997-2002
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Income 1997-2002
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User-education course types

• undergraduates
• 1,2,3 model, WebQuest, DE 1 credit point
• doctoral students Education, information
  literacy and Communication 2,5 credit points
• diverse IR and ICT courses for KI staff
• diverse IR courses for Swedish medical librarians

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Organisation of user-education

• no formal user-education department
• several co-ordinators
• approximately 40 staff involved across all
  departments
• all have teaching, customer services duties and
  project work

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Problems with user-education?

• Repetitive
• January/February and September/October
• Short contact time
• Half-interested students
• Takes energy
• Not enough time to reflect om practise

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Pedagogical development a management perspective
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Vision for the development of library teachers

• that every library teacher at KIB has the
  confidence and knowledge to change pedagogical
  approach and methods as needed to improve
  learning

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The existence and enthusiasm of the pedagogical
developer

• management takes user-education very seriously
• continuously available resource
• enthusiastic, committed and passionate

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Pedagogical platform

• policy document for user-education
• about learning, knowledge, teaching,
  user-education, information literacy and
  pedagogical development
• encourages reflection on learning and teaching
• influenced by phenomenography

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Information literacy
DEVELOPMENT
COLLABORATION
Pedagogical approach at the library
Academic development
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Library teachers choose the courses they teach

• co-ordinators announce forth-coming term's
  teaching
• library teachers choose the sessions they want to
  teach
• individuals are asked if they can teach a
  particular session
• choose to lead the teaching session or assist

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Teaching in pairs what are the advantages?

• valuable to plan and discuss with a teaching
  partner
• critical friend
• experienced library teachers and newcomers can be
  put together

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Teaching in pairs continued

• practise teaching with different people and learn
  about different teaching styles
• teaching is no longer a private activity
• not so lonely!
• disadvantages it costs!

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Positive support from the customer services
managers

• those who teach a lot work less in customer
  services
• makes it easy to say "yes" to teaching
• customer services manager finds a replacement at
  the reference desk or telephone exchange

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Pedagogical skills development
Library educational resources on-line
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More about WebQuest

• Dodge and March, 1995
• based on constructivism
• on-line teaching method
• inquiry-oriented activity
• clearly stuctured
• oftens involves role-play

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Making library teachers perceptions visible

• Nina Ström interviewed ten of the librarian
  teachers at KIB in 2001/2002
• Perceptions
• 1) user-education is about learning to use the
  library
• 2) user-education is about teaching the search
  process
• 3) user-education is about helping students to
  learn their subject

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ROLES THE LIBRARIan CAN PLAY...
Academia
ICT
Library
information specialist
project manager
coordinatör
generalist
consultant
developer
PEDAGOG
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