Viewpoint: Postcards from the Edge: a journey of transition from art librarian to educational developer

This short opinion piece offers a personal insight into the shifting landscape of academic and professional identities, as one art librarian reflects on her transition into educational development. The author introduces the ideas of unbounded, third space professionalism (Whitchurch, 2008) and “Mode 2 knowledge (Gibbons et al, 1994) as particular forms of professional knowledge useful in educational development and library roles. Rather than positioning the educational developer role as somehow separate or ‘other’, the author proposes new partnerships and collaborations between librarians and educational developers to enhance the practice and scholarship of teaching and learning and to enable active and independent learning amongst an increasingly diverse student community (Levy & Roberts, 2005).