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New instruction librarians typically bring a variety of backgrounds, knowledge, and experience to their roles. Whether new librarians have a background in classroom teaching or have never taught an instruction session, thoughtful, interactive, and dynamic training is critical to a new librarian’s success in instruction. To this end, the Research and Instructional Services (RIS) unit at J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte approaches training new instruction librarians from a holistic perspective by promoting continuous professional development throughout the librarian’s career. The unit utilizes a range of ongoing professional development initiatives to build the skills of instruction librarians, introduce them to new technologies and instructional approaches, and prepare them to further the library’s instructional mission in their subject areas. The RIS unit has created a comprehensive training program for new instruction librarians as well as established librarians who are interested in learning about new teaching topics and updating their instruction. This program involves instruction librarians from throughout the library to ensure that all librarians have opportunities to learn from each other’s unique experiences and insights. Training components include a mentoring program, monthly instruction meetings, a summer workshop series, and a peer observation program. Each component of the program is planned and implemented by the Instruction and Pedagogy Working Group, a small team of instruction librarians who have a significant amount of experience with teaching. Each part of the overall initiative is designed to complement the others in order to build a robust instructional training experience.

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