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Jennifer L. C. Burke; Elizabeth C. Novosel; Daniel G. Kipnis; Rasitha R. Jayesekere – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2025
Academic librarians do not engage with all disciplinary departments equally. Despite equal or even greater efforts, some departments are less responsive to librarian outreach. One such department is mathematics. To understand mathematics departments' relationships with their academic librarians, three mathematics librarians created a 20-question…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Santamaria, Michele; Schomberg, Jessica – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Drawing from Wendy Holliday's use of metaphor to generate exploration around information literacy discourse, we pose some preliminary ideas about mapping a vaccination metaphor onto one-shots. We do so to offer another lens through which to explore the mechanisms and implications of one-shots being viewed as common-sensical and unassailable. Thus,…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Information Literacy, Teaching Methods, Misinformation
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Catherine Meals; Meghan Kowalski; Faith Rusk – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
This article reports the findings and implications of a qualitative exploratory study of writing composition instructors' approaches to teaching research skills and designing research assignments. The authors present the common learning goals, instructional approaches, and research teaching challenges that surfaced through semi-structured,…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Lijuan Xu – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2024
Drawing on recent teaching experiences in two intermediate-level classes, this paper showcases the ways through which librarians can help students interrogate structural issues in knowledge creation. Through class discussions and projects, students engaged with information at both individual sources and system levels. They confronted hidden…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Epistemology, Social Justice, Minority Groups
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Buljung, Briannaa; Vuletich, Seth; Dunn, Lisa – Education for Information, 2023
Incorporation of information literacy into the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum can be a challenge for academic librarians, in part due to different terminology than used by disciplinary faculty colleagues. Aligning terminology used in information literacy frameworks with the scientific method can provide a means…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Information Literacy, Vocabulary, STEM Education
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Cay del Junco – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
In contrast to the traditional library instruction aim of finding and evaluating information, critical library pedagogies aim to teach students to analyze and challenge the power structures that determine what kind of information is deemed valuable. STEM librarians have been slower to take up these approaches than our colleagues with other…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Information Literacy, Library Science, Critical Theory
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Don Latham; Melissa Gross; Heidi Julien – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This paper shares the results of semi-structured interviews with 30 community college librarians who have instruction duties. The interviews explored these librarians' perceptions of students' information literacy (IL) strengths and weaknesses as well as their views of students' self-perceptions. Participants believe that students are confident in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
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Kathia Salomé Ibacache Oliva; Elizabeth Novosel; Stacy Gilbert – College & Research Libraries, 2024
According to a 2021 Pew Research report, over 80 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds use social media. Studies also show that higher education students use social media in both academic and everyday life. However, there is minimal research about how, or whether, librarians utilize social media in their library instruction as a source of information for…
Descriptors: Social Media, Information Literacy, Information Sources, Literacy Education
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Karleigh Riesen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Librarians provide instruction for students across disciplines, each with their own teaching and learning practices. An exploration of signature pedagogies will help librarians develop a deeper understanding of student learning. This article identifies reflective pedagogy as a teaching strategy librarians can use to expand upon this learning by…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Reflective Teaching, Librarians, Academic Libraries
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Romel Espinel; Eamon Tewell – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
Neoliberal capitalism's demands for efficiency and innovation have greatly impacted North American academic libraries and the work conducted in them, including information literacy instruction. The divisive forces of neoliberalism must be met with resistance, and libraries hold the potential for generating an information literacy praxis where…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Information Literacy
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Goodsett, Mandi; Schmillen, Hanna – College & Research Libraries, 2022
As students encounter high volumes of misinformation in online environments, cultivating critical thinking is an important goal of information literacy instruction, especially for first-year college students, who are just beginning to develop cognitive habits in their early years of postsecondary schooling. However, this study demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, College Freshmen, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
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Fargo, Hailley M.; Linares-Gray, Rosalinda H. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
Many librarians conduct research in higher education by studying the undergraduate students with whom they work. Instead of research on students, this paper argues the need for library and information science (LIS) research with, for, and by students. It shows why librarians should explore collaborative partnerships with student-researchers to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Open Educational Resources, Information Literacy, Academic Libraries
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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
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Iqal, Sohail; Idrees, Haroon – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore the current practices of information literacy instruction in the libraries of universities in Pakistan. The research method consisted of a quantitative approach using a structured questionnaire for empirical data collection, which was sent to the universities and degree awarding institutions recognised by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
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Annette Bochenek; Heather Howard; Zoeanna Mayhook – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Librarians at a large Midwestern university integrated intercultural competencies into an information literacy course taught annually to over 100 first-year business students. The interventions aim to improve intercultural skills and characteristics as defined by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) Intercultural Knowledge…
Descriptors: Business, Introductory Courses, Information Literacy, Business Education
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