1.
Collaborating in the curriculum:
Developing a confident librarian
presence in an uncertain space
using the poetic principle of
appreciative inquiry.
Vicky Grant
Head of Library Learning Services
University of Sheffield
1 November 2018

2.
Today’s session – the five phases of our
information and digital literacy action research
project through the lens of:
Appreciative
inquiry
Participatory
Action
Research
Librarian
identities
Information
and digital
literacy
Academic
programmes
Dialogue

3.
Action research
Works to
create
change
Values the
lived
experience
Aims to
transform
power
Plan-Act-
Reflect
Reason, P. & Bradbury, H. (2008) The SAGE handbook of action research: participative inquiry and practice. 2nd ed.
Los Angeles, Calif. ; London: SAGE.

4.
Appreciative inquiry for transformative
change: philosophical principles
Cooperrider, D. L., Whitney, D. K. and Stavros, J. M. (2008) Appreciative
inquiry handbook : for leaders of change, 2nd ed., Brunswick: Crown Custom
Pub.
Poetics Narrative Positivity
Anticipatory Constructivist Simultaneous

5.
Gertrude Stein
by Pablo Picasso
© 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Reproduced here under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Exception 30: Criticism and review

6.
An activity
Teaching and Learning Librarians are
‘so cool’ because …
Discuss in pairs
Post your responses on to Padlet
goo.gl/rPYjoo

7.
Phase one 2015-16: What is digital literacy and
what does it mean to librarians?

8.
Phase two: 2016-17 Co-developing an Information and
Digital Literacy Framework with non-librarian colleagues
The Sheffield IDL Framework
The University of Sheffield Strategic Plan

9.
Phase three: 2016-2017 Co-
developing and co-delivering IDL
workshops with students

10.
“If the structure does not permit
dialogue then the structure must
be changed”
Paulo Freire (1990) p54.
Freire, P. (1990). Pedagogy of the oppressed (20th anniversary ed.). New York: Continuum.

11.
Reflecting
Elka, Library SALT team,
2016-17 and 2017-18.
“I think it would be good
next year to ask students to
co-decide on workshops
perhaps by looking at the
queries that come through
the Library helpdesk.” - Staff
member

12.
Phase four: 2017-2018 Co-developing and co-
delivering digital learning objects with students

13.
Reflecting
Elka, Library SALT team,
2016-17 and 2017-18.

14.
Reflecting
Matt, Library SALT team,
2017-18.

15.
Phase five: 2018-2019 Integrating information and
digital literacy into academic programmes

16.
Academics from the Department of Physics and
Astronomy working with librarians: showcase of
their IDL/PLA map

17.
“The world is not finished. It is
always in the process of
becoming.”
Paulo Freire, (1998). p.72.
Freire, P. (1998). Pedagogy of freedom : ethics, democracy and civic courage (Critical
perspectives series). Lanham, Md. ; Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield.

18.
● Librarians might sometimes lead and sometimes support
information and digital literacy teaching. Appreciative inquiry
can develop confident fluid identities within this uncertain
space.
● Listening, reflecting and being willing to change the plan is
fundamental to success.
● The process of collaboration is both troublesome and
rewarding.
Implications of our project for
the practice of Teaching and
Learning Librarians

19.
A provocation
Teaching and Learning Librarians in the future will
discard teaching knowledge discovery in favour of
enabling knowledge creation
Let’s debate!

20.
@missvagrant
@UniSheffieldLib
idl.group.shef.ac.uk