Presenters are listed in alphabetical order.
Canadian Academic Librarians Teaching Online
Librarians’ roles and the services they provide are changing concomitantly with more online learning opportunities in higher education. Academic librarians who support higher education need to transition to new pedagogies and adapt their teaching to both synchronous and asynchronous online learning environments. Despite these changes, a scarcity of information exists documenting how well academic librarians are prepared for these changing online roles. The research presented here employs a survey of the perceptions of Canadian academic librarians which was undertaken in 2019 to capture the realities of their roles and the accounts of their skill and competency acquisition pre-pandemic. The literature review reveals librarian as teacher as an emergent role intersecting significantly with technology. The survey finds that Canadian academic librarians work across various online environments, with most acquiring technological and pedagogical competencies once they are in their roles, rather than before they assume their roles. A competency framework for academic librarians in Canada is proposed that reflects their present realities in online spaces and has implications for the curriculum of library schools in Canada.