“…3.2 Evaluation of librarians as teachers of information literacy Murtha et al (2006) contend that there are three types of assessing librarians as teachers, namely, prescriptive or diagnostic assessment used to determine the level of competency of librarians as teachers; formative assessment that is used to provide feedback to librarians as teachers about their teaching abilities to assist them improve; and summative assessment which is used to provide administrative support about teaching abilities and competency of librarians. Assessment methods that are used to evaluate the performance of librarians as teachers include interviews, personal reflections, observations, portfolios of evidence, measurements of students' outcomes, competency tests, students' evaluation surveys, peer reviews and citation analysis (Murtha et al, 2006;Lockhart, 2016). The majority of studies on students' evaluation of librarians in teaching IL emanate from the USA.…”