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Frank Baudino, Editor; Sara Eckstein, Editor; Joy Huddleston, Editor; Sarah Jones, Editor; Becky Meneely, Editor – Online Submission, 2024
Eleven scholarly papers and six abstracts comprise the content of the twenty-fourth annual Brick & Click Libraries Conference, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The 2024 paper and abstract titles include:(1) Love it or Leery? Rapid AI Aided Instructional Design for Library Learning (Sean Cordes); (2)…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Development, Library Instruction, Library Role
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Kim, Miseon; Seo, Dugwon; Damas, M. Chantale – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2023
This study explores the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) community college faculty's perspectives on the Association of College and Research Libraries' (ACRL) "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education" ("Framework"). Previous studies of the "Framework" implementation have…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Teacher Attitudes
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Gorman, Emily F.; Staley, Catherine – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2018
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of online and in-person instructional methods for teaching research skills, as well as to determine student preferences for each method. Undergraduate students received librarian-led research skills instruction either through an online course management system or in person at the library.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Research Skills
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Granruth, Laura Brierton; Pashkova-Balkenhol, Tatiana – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2018
Improving the information literacy and writing skills of undergraduate social work students continues to be an issue for social work educators. In spite of the persistent concern, only a few studies examine the factors influencing these skills and interventions to strengthen them. This article details a faculty-librarian collaborative teaching…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Writing Skills, Undergraduate Students, Social Work
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Lundstrom, Kacy; Diekema, Anne R.; Leary, Heather; Haderlie, Sheri; Holliday, Wendy – Communications in Information Literacy, 2015
The purpose of this research was to determine how information synthesis skills can be taught effectively, and to discover how the level of synthesis in student writing can be effectively measured. The intervention was an information synthesis lesson that broke down the synthesis process into sequenced tasks. Researchers created a rubric which they…
Descriptors: Synthesis, Information Skills, Intervention, Scoring Rubrics
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Aleman, Karla J.; Porter, Toccara D. – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2016
Connecting with text-weary students can be a challenge in the online instructional environment. Librarians have often developed screencast videos and integrated screenshots into online learning objects to teach students basic research skills. An alternative technology, graphical interchange format (GIF), may prove to be an excellent blend of the…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Research Skills, Skill Development, Web Based Instruction
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Stewart-Mailhiot, Amy – Communications in Information Literacy, 2014
A major responsibility of instruction librarians is to help students develop a more extensive and flexible information literacy repertoire. The teaching and learning of information literacy most often takes place in one of two ways: within the context of single 50-minute library sessions, or at the reference desk. In both cases, it usually takes…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Assignments, Skill Development, Information Literacy
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Denda, Kayo – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
This case study presents a cocurricular initiative at the Margery Somers Foster Center at Rutgers University Libraries in New Brunswick, NJ. The initiative resulted in an interview workshop for the course Knowledge and Power, a "mission course" of the Douglass Residential College. This discussion-based workshop uses visual and multimedia…
Descriptors: Interviews, Skill Development, Visual Literacy, Assignments
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Nelson, Megan Sapp – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009
Librarianship is one of a limited number of disciplines that deliberately learn and practice the art of the interview. For engineering librarians, this gives expertise and a role in teaching professional skills that are increasingly expected in the engineering profession. The reference interview and design interview have many similarities. Some…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Speech, Service Learning, Library Instruction
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Whitehurst, Angela P. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 2010
The need for information literacy continues to increase as colleges and universities begin to globalize their curricula and include global readiness in institutional missions. This article reports pretest and posttest data collected during a librarian-faculty collaboration to determine the effect of information literacy instruction on students…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Teaching Methods, Library Instruction, Library Role
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Howe, Eleanor B. – Knowledge Quest, 1998
Combines the results of action research in the high school library media center with conclusions in the professional literature to argue that systematic formal instruction in electronic search skills is necessary for awareness of library media software and competence in its use. Focuses on the why, what, where, and how of teaching electronic…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Course Integrated Library Instruction, High School Students, High Schools
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Rickwood, Peter C. – Journal of Geological Education, 1975
Suggests a format to be used to introduce students to the use of reference materials and provides a series of instructional activities. (CP)
Descriptors: College Science, College Students, Geology, Higher Education
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Greenwood, Tina Evans; Frisbie, Jeffrey – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1998
Describes a one-credit, theme-based library instruction course for freshmen and sophomores at Fort Lewis College (Durango, Colorado). Discusses benefits of theme-based instruction; assigned work; skills students should acquire during the course; course assessment and development; and future changes in the course. (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Course Content, Higher Education, Information Literacy
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Dyckman, Lise M. – Reference Librarian, 1995
Describes a process-oriented approach to teaching searching skills for computer-based resources that was developed at the New York University library. A syllabus based on DIALOG's Classmate Program is explained, and the use of active learning theory to help restrict results is described. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Active Learning, Higher Education, Library Instruction
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Smith, Robert C.; Pike, Carol S.; Wallace, Mildred G. – International Journal of Instructional Media, 1993
Video programming can provide the Knowledge Connection between students and effective information-skills instruction. Commercially produced video programs for library/information-skills instruction are convenient and easy to use, with no scripts to write, rehearse, or produce. Locally produced videos can be tailored to fit a specific library…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Skills, Instructional Materials, Library Instruction
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