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Is the Library One-Shot Effective? A Meta-Analytic Study
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Cook, Dani Brecher – College & Research Libraries, 2022
The one-shot instruction session is a dominant mode of teaching in academic libraries. While many conference presentations and articles about methods have been shared, there is little consensus about whether a single library session promotes student learning about information literacy topics. This meta-analysis gathers studies that employ…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness
Academic Libraries and Student Engagement: A Literature Review
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Appleton, Leo – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2020
The term 'student engagement' has a broad meaning and is used freely as an expression in several different contexts of academic librarianship. This literature review covers scholarship from across several of these areas and is structured so that four broad themes are systematically addressed: student engagement in learning; students as partners;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Learner Engagement, Literature Reviews, Foreign Countries
A Review of Information Literacy Programmes in Higher Education: The Effects of Face-to-Face, Online and Blended Formats on Student Perception
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Morris, Delyth – Journal of Information Literacy, 2020
This review will aim to establish if there is strong evidence to suggest a student preference for delivery format within information literacy teaching. This research supports and builds on research previously undertaken by Cardiff University (Weightman et al., 2017). Weightman et al (2017) addressed the effect of face-to-face or online learning…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Program Effectiveness, College Students
Academic Libraries' Outreach Efforts: Identifying Themes in the Literature
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Blummer, Barbara; Kenton, Jeffrey M. – Public Services Quarterly, 2019
Outreach programs remain essential in fostering the use of library collections and services. A review of one hundred seventy-four papers on academic library outreach from 2008 to January 2019 highlighted the popularity of these programs during this period as well as the identification of five themes. These themes point to the importance of library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Outreach Programs, Library Services, Use Studies
The Implications of Library Anxiety for Academic Reference Services: A Review of the Literature
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Carlile, Heather – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2007
Academic reference librarians continually observe that many students are embarrassed about not knowing how to use the library and are reluctant to approach the reference desk. The theory of library anxiety offers an explanation, proposing that a fear of being in and using libraries serves as a psychological barrier, hindering many university…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Reference Services, College Students, Foreign Countries
Humor in the Classroom: Implications for the Bibliographic Instruction Librarian.
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MacAdam, Barbara – College and Research Libraries, 1985
Examination of specific role of humor in college classroom and its effect on learning and communicative climate highlights academic classroom instruction, objectives of academic bibliographic instruction, positive learning environment and bibliographic instruction classroom, prevalence of humor in college classroom, and how classroom humor affects…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, College Faculty