Adam Edwards is an experienced library manager whose career has focused on the student experience and supporting academic staff through subject liaison, resource management and information literacy teaching. He manages a team of librarians and support staff providing information resources for the Schools of Law and Science and Technology. In 2017-18 the team delivered 497 hours of information literacy teaching for students at all levels.
Adam has been in library academic liaison for most of his career. He previously worked at:
He was a founder member of the UK Libraries Plus team who created the UK wide university library access scheme which is now SCONUL Access.
Academic and professional qualifications:
English, French
Adam teaches information literacy to students at all levels. He is particularly interested in embedding this more widely in the curriculum and in methods to improve student engagement and knowledge retention. Over the past four years he has collaborated with Vanessa Hill and other Middlesex University Library team members to develop new ways to teach information literacy.
The materials they have developed are publicly available under Creative Commons Licence via their LibGuide: http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/MDXGames
A recent blog post explains our thinking: https://infolit.org.uk/game-on-enhancing-engagement-interaction-and-reflection-in-library-workshops/
Their work has been presented at the following conferences:
They have also run a number of one day workshops for NHS and School Librarians.
A summary of current treaching practice by the Librarians at Middlesex is available in an article in SCONUL Focus.
A full list of Adam's papers and presentations can be found in the Middlesex University Research Repository.
In 2016 Adam completed a joint DProf by Public Works with Vanessa Hill which reflects on and develops their work in information literacy since 2011 and how this will impact on the future of the library profession. The full work is here:
Demythologising librarianship: future librarians in a changing literacy landscape. [Doctorate by Public Works] http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/18944/
The core public work on the use of games and activties in information literacy teaching is freely available for reuse from here: http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/mdxgames
A recent blog post explains our thinking: https://infolit.org.uk/game-on-enhancing-engagement-interaction-and-reflection-in-library-workshops/
They gave a presentation on the whole DProf experience at Lilac 2017:
Practitioner research for librarians: a DProf case study. In: LILAC 2017, 10-12 April 2017, Swansea University, Wales. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/21649
A paper by Adam looking at the pedagoical practice of all the librarians at Middlesex University was published in Sconul Focus:
Evolving pedagogical practice at Middlesex University: the state of our art. SCONUL Focus (68). pp. 47-57. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/21072
Adam's research interests are information literacy and library management. You can also see his papers on Ressearch Gate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Edwards4
Edwards, J. Adam (2021) “I’d like to work here because the pond looks nice”: The do’s and don'ts of applying to be a subject librarian. In: ASPECTS 4: So you want to be a Subject Librarian?, 26 May 2021, London - Online.
Georgiadou, Elli and Berki, Eleni and Valtanen, Juri and Siakas, Kerstin V. and Rahanu, Harjinder and Edwards, J. Adam and Paltalidis, Nickos and Agouropoulos, Andreas and Hatzipanagos, Stylianos and McGuinness, Claire and Cavanagh, Jerald and Kirby, Padraig and Ojukwu, Dili and Savva, Andreas and Stylianou, Vasso and Plastira, Mary and Gevorgyan, Rita and Ross, Margaret and Staples, Geoff and Knezevic, Ratko and Čolic, Amela and Valkanou, Theodora and Siakas, Errikos and Deshappriy, Nelum and Zirki, Annita and Stoffová, Veronika and Lambrou, Georgia and Morales Calleja, Carlos and Stoffová, Maja and Panteri, Maria and Panteri, Valentina and Zamaraeva, Galina and Panov, Yuri (2020) Challenges of rapid migration to fully virtual education in the age of the Corona virus pandemic: experiences from across the world. In: Twenty Fifth International Conference on Software Process Improvement Research, Education and Training (INSPIRE XXV), 16 Jul 2020, Online.
Edwards, J. Adam (2020) Commuter students: Middlesex University case study. In: Eliminating barriers for “non-traditional” students - sherif conf 0220, 25 Feb 2020, CILIP Headquarters, London, UK.
Edwards, J. Adam and Hill, Vanessa (2018) Game on: enhancing engagement, interaction and reflection in library workshops. [Digital artefact]
Georgiadou, Elli and Rahanu, Harjinder and Siakas, Kerstin V. and McGuinness, Claire and Edwards, J. Adam and Hill, Vanessa and Khan, Nawaz and Kirby, Padraig and Cavanagh, Jerald and Knezevic, Ratko (2018) Fake news and critical thinking in information evaluation. In: Western Balkan Information Literacy Conference WBILC 2018, 21-22 June 2018, Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Edwards, J. Adam (2007) A vital lifeline: UK Libraries Plus 1999-2006. SCONUL Focus, 40, pp. 89-93. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/4362/
