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Annette Goodwin; Waseem Afzal – Journal of Information Literacy, 2023
Academic librarians deliver information literacy instruction (ILI) to students, engage with a range of stakeholders, and work in a range of learning environments that are continually changing. While past research has focused on the perceptions of librarians regarding their role in ILI, this has not been a significant focus of research in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Librarians, Academic Libraries
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Julien, Heidi; Gross, Melissa; Latham, Don – Journal of Information Literacy, 2022
Teaching is a core role for librarians in academic contexts, although most librarians are not formally prepared to teach and encounter significant challenges in the role, including complex relationships with campus colleagues. The purpose of this research was to explore how community college librarians, an understudied population, understand their…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Community Colleges, Library Role
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Karolina Andersdotter – Journal of Information Literacy, 2023
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) poses challenges as well as opportunities for anyone or anything dealing with digital technologies, including libraries. Libraries and librarians have a twofold challenge in that they simultaneously must consider AI applications in library operations as well as AI skills and knowledge as part of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Information Skills, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
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Matteson, Miriam L.; Gersch, Beate – Journal of Information Literacy, 2020
Extending from existing research on how public libraries offer information literacy (IL) instruction through classes or programs, the purpose of this research was to explore how public librarians provide IL instruction through individual interactions with patrons. US public librarians recorded their impressions of instructional interactions over a…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Public Libraries, Library Role
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Leslin H. Charles – Journal of Information Literacy, 2023
As a part of a larger study titled, First Years Meet the Frames, this work explores the perceptions of first-generation students (FGS) on their readiness for college-level research as well as their first-year college experience with libraries and librarians. Although, by definition, these students lack the cultural capital normally derived from…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Readiness, Student Research, Social Capital
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Dalton, Michelle – Journal of Information Literacy, 2019
The use of systematic review as a research method has become increasingly prevalent in the social and human sciences. However, the role of the librarian in delivering library and information skills (LIS) support in this area remains relatively undocumented, in contrast with the health sciences where systematic review support is often highly…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Literature Reviews, Social Sciences
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Barbara Fister – Journal of Information Literacy, 2017
In this personal exploration of information literacy (IL) instruction at one institution, I look back at three decades of my involvement with pedagogy and how our local practices have reflected national conversations about the field. Anxiety about the identity and purpose of academic libraries in higher education has shaped the ways we have…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Context Effect
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James Elmborg – Journal of Information Literacy, 2017
This article summarizes the author's evolution as a writing instructor toward a career as a librarian teaching information literacy and finally as a scholar and researcher studying information literacy as an academic subject. Changes in writing pedagogy are explored as they relate to changes in the author's instructional practices and how they…
Descriptors: Librarians, Information Literacy, Career Change, Writing Instruction
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Elise Silva; Jessica Green; Cole Walker – Journal of Information Literacy, 2018
Researchers at Brigham Young University studied first-year students' information evaluation behaviours of open-access, popular news-based, non-academic source material on a variety of subjects. Using think-aloud protocols and screen-recording, researchers coded most and least used evaluation behaviours. Students most used an article's sources,…
Descriptors: Universities, Information Literacy, Information Sources, Evaluation Criteria