Proficiencies for Instructional Librarian

There are global perspectives for instructional librarians bases on politics of pedagogy, the new expectations and reality for information literacy in academic librarianship -

• administrative skills
• assessment and evaluation skills
• communication skills
• curriculum knowledge
• information literacy integration skills
• instructional design skills
• leadership skills
• planning skills
• presentation skills
• promotion skills
• subject expertise
• teaching skills

The question is where to learn these proficiencies? Well two-thirds of the proficiencies are acquired from the professional education, the library school, plus persistence in professional development, and yet all of them primary acquired on the job or self-taught proficiency where work experience is essential number one priority.