Claire McGuinness is a part-time lecturer in the School of Information and Library Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland. She has been teaching and researching information literacy for more than a decade, and was awarded a PhD. in 2005. Claire has published a number of articles and book chapters on information literacy and academic-librarian collaboration, and has presented her work at several international conferences. Currently teaching two information literacy-oriented modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level, Claire is also a member of the Working Group on Information Literacy of the Library Association of Ireland.