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Azadbakht\u003Cbr>University of Nevada, Reno, [eazadbakht@unr.edu](eazadbakht@unr.edu)\u003Cbr>Follow this and additional works at: [https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit](https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit)\u003Cbr> Part of the Information Literacy Commons\u003Cbr>Let us know how access to this document benefits you. |  |\n\nRecommended Citation  \nAzadbakht, E. S. (2021) . The Many Faces of Instruction: An Exploration of Academic Librarians’ Teaching Personas. Communications in Information Literacy, 15 (1), 57–74 . [https://doi.org/10.15760/](https://doi.org/10.15760/)[ ](https://doi.org/10.15760/)[comminfolit.2021.15.1.3](comminfolit.2021.15.1.3)  \nThis open access Research Article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4 .0) . All documents in PDXScholar should meet accessibility standards. If we can make this document more accessible to you, contact our team.  \nThe Many Faces of Instruction: An Exploration of Academic Librarians’ Teaching Personas  \nElena S. Azadbakht, University of Nevada, Reno  \nAbstract  \nWhile several studies explore whether librarians think of themselves as teachers, how librarians construct their teacher identities has received less attention in the literature. This project used semi-structured interviews with eighteen academic librarians in the United States to gain a sense of their teaching personas and how these have developed and evolved over time. The participants valued authenticity but were also able to quickly adapt their personas to different contexts. Librarians wish to be seen as friendly experts and develop their values-based teaching personas slowly over the course of their careers. The results of this study can help shape professional development efforts aimed at librarians who teach as well as provide guidance to library and information science students as they learn about information literacy instruction.  \nKeywords: teaching personas, library instruction, information literacy, librarian identity  \nAzadbakht, E. S. (2021). The many faces of instruction: An exploration of academic librarians’ teaching personas. Communications in Information Literacy, 15(1), 57–74.  \nThe Many Faces of Instruction: An Exploration of Academic Librarians’ Teaching Personas  \nAcademic librarians who teach bring parts of their personalities—intentionally or not—into the classroom and this has an impact on the students with whom they interact. Parini (2005) likened personas to “masks” individuals wear in different social interactions and to the unique “voice” that a writer cultivates during the course of his or her career. The concept of the teaching persona has appeared throughout the education literature, with researchers and practitioners encouraging their colleagues in various contexts, from elementary schools to college classrooms, to carefully consider the “face” they present to their students.  \nAlthough some librarians identify as teachers and draw upon pedagogical theories and best practices, no formal exploration of librarians’ use of teaching personas has been conducted. Do librarians with significant instructional responsibilities develop and deploy teaching personas? Even librarians who do not consider themselves teachers or deliberately create personas may nevertheless center their presence on certain values and adopt specific tones of voice, demeanors, and behaviors when providing instruction. Through semi-structured interviews with 18 academic librarians at different points in their careers and situated in various instructional contexts, the author sought a better understanding of librarians’teaching personas. 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