This talk demonstrates how instruction librarians can help colleagues in non-teaching roles recognize and strengthen the instructional dimensions of their everyday work. While many library personnel don’t find themselves in front of a traditional classroom, nearly all library roles carry an instructional component. Whether answering an email, delegating tasks, staffing a public service point, documenting a workflow, or demonstrating a process, these non-classroom interactions all benefit from learner-centered communication and effective knowledge transfer. This session emphasizes building teaching confidence within the library itself, creating a ripple effect for extending instructional culture. Drawing on a professional development workshop developed at WVU Libraries, the talk illustrates how pedagogical theory and best practices can be shared with and applied by library personnel outside the teaching and learning department.
Participants will: 1. Identify opportunities for creating teachable moments in the course of daily library work. 2. Adapt strategies for fostering knowledge-sharing skills among non-instructional library colleagues to fit participants’ own organizations
