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Townsend, Lori; Brunetti, Korey; Hofer, Amy R. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
What do we teach when we teach information literacy in higher education? This paper describes a pedagogical approach to information literacy that helps instructors focus content around transformative learning thresholds. The threshold concept framework holds promise for librarians because it grounds the instructor in the big ideas and underlying…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Information Literacy, Higher Education, Models
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Via, Barbara J.; Schmidle, Deborah J. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2007
The library and information science field is currently confronted with difficult decisions about how best to allocate acquisition expenditures among increasingly expensive journals. This article measures the return-on-investment of serial expenditures through the use of citation analysis, which is a widely used approach to ascertaining journal…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Libraries, Expenditures, Library Science