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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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Williams, Simone; Kamper, Elizabeth – Journal of Information Literacy, 2023
In this article, the authors explore whether academic libraries are truly capable of implementing a critical information literacy (CIL) praxis and if there are inherent threats to critical librarianship when incorporating CIL into the curriculum. The survey instrument in this study gathered data from 92 academic library instructors based within…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Critical Literacy, Information Literacy, Library Education
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Aquila, Mary; Wolfe, Jennifer L. – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2023
This article is an update to a previous article on the online embedded librarian program at Athens State University. It examines the nature of embedded librarianship at Athens State University and how it has grown and evolved over the past fifteen years. The authors review the literature and provide definitions and best practices associated with…
Descriptors: State Universities, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Distance Education
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Tiffanie Lynn Ford-Baxter – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
Information literacy (IL) open learning object repositories (LORs) provide a space for librarians to find and exchange instruction resources and lessons. Given many librarians enter the workforce with little or no formal training or educational opportunities to learn about pedagogy, these repositories are indispensable resources to the Library and…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Librarians, Library Instruction, Instructional Materials
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Charles, Leslin H.; DeFabiis, William – College & Research Libraries, 2021
Using the practice of embedded librarianship, a professor from the Graduate School of Education and the Education Librarian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey collaborated to investigate its impact on the inherent transactional distance that exists in an online graduate course. Using Michael G. Moore's three relational distances…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Graduate Study, Library Science
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Hays1, Lauren; Studebaker, Bethani – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Teaching is a primary responsibility of many academic librarians. However, despite the job duties, many academic librarians do not see themselves as teachers. To determine how participation in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) impacted academic instruction librarians' teacher identity the authors conducted an explanatory sequential…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Scholarship, Instruction
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Hooper, Michaela D. Willi; Scharf, Emily – Journal of Transformative Education, 2017
This literature review is intended to examine transformative learning within the context of academic libraries and its applications for librarians. Although the main audience is academic librarians who facilitate student learning, it may also be of interest to other practitioners and researchers who are interested in applying transformative…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Academic Libraries, Literature Reviews, Library Instruction
Baudino, Frank, Ed.; Johnson, Carolyn, Ed.; Jones, Sarah, Ed.; Meneely, Becky, Ed.; Young, Natasha, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
Ten scholarly papers and twelve abstracts comprise the content of the twenty-first annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The twenty-first Brick & Click Libraries Conference was held virtually. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Conferences (Gatherings), Library Services
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Click, Amanda B.; Wiley, Claire Walker; Houlihan, Meggan – College & Research Libraries, 2017
This study is a systematic review of the library and information science (LIS) literature related to international students and academic libraries. A systematic review involves the methodical collection and analysis of a body of literature and is growing in popularity in the LIS field. Three well-known LIS databases were systematically searched…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Students, Information Science Education, Library Science
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Sharon Markless; David Streatfield – Journal of Information Literacy, 2017
This paper surveys the (patchy and uneven) advances in LIS impact evaluation over the past ten years and notes the surge forward in public library impact evaluation, before looking more broadly at the international and educational impact evaluation scene and noting the advance of programme-theory driven approaches. The authors then identify…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness, Trend Analysis, Library Science
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Sobel, Karen; Avery, Susan; Ferrer-Vinent, Ignacio J. – Public Services Quarterly, 2016
Academic libraries are one of the most important sources of "on the job" training for future library instructors. Librarians who supervise and assess these future library instructors (often in graduate assistant positions) often choose to provide observations and feedback each semester to these instructors in training. Scholarly…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Academic Libraries, Teacher Effectiveness
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Morgan, Patrick K. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
Since about 2003, the notion of threshold concepts--the central ideas in any field that change how learners think about other ideas--have become difficult to escape at library conferences and in general information literacy discourse. Their visibility will likely only increase because threshold concepts figure prominently in the Framework for…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Adoption (Ideas), Concept Formation, Library Instruction
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Klipfel, Kevin Michael – College & Research Libraries, 2015
This article articulates and defends a student-centered approach to reference and instructional librarianship defined by authentic engagement with students' interests. A review of the history of the construct of authenticity in philosophy, humanistic and existential psychology, and contemporary educational psychology is traced. Connections are…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Reference Services, Library Science, Student Centered Curriculum
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Kooy, Brian K. – College & Research Libraries, 2016
Central to the ongoing success of the liaison model is the need for liaison librarians to stay informed and up-to-date about recent developments in the subject areas of their assigned academic departments and programs. This article describes an exploratory study conducted to determine whether information obtained from the social media accounts of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Librarians, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
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Hofer, Amy R.; Townsend, Lori; Brunetti, Korey – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
Librarians regularly encounter students who struggle to understand and apply information literacy concepts. A qualitative survey administered to information literacy practitioners asked about troublesome content and analyzed results using the threshold concepts pedagogical framework first described by Jan Meyer and Ray Land. A threshold concept…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Library Science
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