City Tech library faculty, Profs. Cailean Cooney, Wanett Clyde, Kel Karpinski, Junior Tidal, and Nanette Johnson, recently published an article about their experiences communicating their work as non-teaching library faculty using a teaching portfolio. See Cooney, C., Clyde, W., Karpinski, K., Tidal, J., & Johnson, N. (2023). When ‘Non-Instructional’ Librarians Teach: Navigating Faculty Status and Teaching Portfolios. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 9, 1–14, https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v9.40962. CUNY Academic Works
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This article shares individual and collective experiences from five faculty ranked librarians with roles outside of formal instruction who are employed at an academic institution in the United States, and their approach to developing and embracing a teacher identity in the context of their professional trajectory. The article explores how the authors prepared to be evaluated against traditional classroom teaching for promotion by forming a cohort-based group to support “non-instructional” librarians to create a teaching portfolio, and how they approached teaching from liminal and, at times, tenuous positions and career stages.
