What is it about?
I argue that teaching skills are essential for academic librarians. I report on two different teaching situations: instructing students in the importance of developing bibliographic skills; and encouraging students to appreciate the value of paratext in folk-song and other music anthologies.
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Why is it important?
Two different teaching opportunities, one more traditionally library-related and the other considering folk-song collections in a cultural history context, serve to demonstrate the importance of a librarian developing teaching skills in order to engage with students to maximum effect.
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As an academic librarian, I engage with our readers to help develop useful technical skills, eg compiling bibliographies or devising research strategies. Since I have a parallel identity as a musicologist, I am also concerned with public engagement in terms of sharing my enthusiasm for, and the importance of, the cultural history that pervades our library collections.
Dr Karen E. McAulay
Royal Conservatoire
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This page is a summary of: Sexy bibliography (and revealing paratext), Library Review, February 2015, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/lr-09-2014-0104.
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