In 2016 the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education funded three Irish academic libraries to review, implement and evaluate a new "National Professional Development Framework for All Staff who Teach in Higher Education" over two years. The Framework situates professional development as a process…

Introduction: Self-guided learning has had a major impact on adult education, where information seeking and use are key aspects of learning. With their lack of experience in study contexts, the students are nevertheless assumed to develop information literacy. Method: The paper aims to create an understanding of how information literacy can be…

In the need of teacher-librarians to organize, to categorize, to preserve, to select, to deselect, and to acquire, sometimes the other half of the job is easily overlooked. And yet, it is the most important piece. Who does not remember those late Sunday nights writing lesson plans for the week or maybe plans to just get through the next day?Oddly…