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Carini, Peter – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
This article provides the framework for a set of standards and outcomes that would constitute information literacy with primary sources. Based on a working model used at Dartmouth College's Rauner Special Collections Library in Hanover, New Hampshire, these concepts create a framework for teaching with primary source materials intended to produce…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Archives, Special Libraries, Primary Sources
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Behr, Michele D.; Hayward, Julie L. – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2016
Are services that were once intended to be exclusively available to the distance learning population now typically available for all users in a university community? This article seeks to investigate this question using two different methods. First, an unobtrusive study of 100 library Websites was conducted to determine whether these libraries…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Library Services, Academic Libraries, Web Sites
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Lombard, Emmett – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2016
This article describes information literacy struggles of ESL college students within the context of four information literacy components: Identify, Locate, Evaluate, Use. Experiences from an online freshman composition course are used to illustrate these struggles, along with techniques academic librarians use to help ESL students from a distance.
Descriptors: Online Systems, Library Services, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chin Roemer, Robin; Greer, Rebecca – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2016
Research workshops are designed to help students develop skills that go beyond the scope of one-shot library sessions. However, with more students conducting research off-campus, online, and in the evening, workshops targeted towards complex skills and competencies are difficult to offer. But what if librarians were to design and deliver intensive…
Descriptors: Workshops, Integrated Learning Systems, Library Instruction, Research Skills
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Ismail, Mohd Nasir; Mamat, Nurfaezah; Jamaludin, Adnan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2018
The purpose of this study is to investigate effects of WebOPAC Self Training Tool with Guided Exploration (WSTTG), WebOPAC Self Training Tool with non-guided exploration (WSTT) and Traditional (T) groups as the learning strategies on information literacy (IL) skills standards among first year degree students in Malaysian public university. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Search Strategies, Information Literacy
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Bussmann, Jeffra Diane; Bond, Jeffrey D. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2015
The published literature on information literacy in mathematics is relatively sparse. This article explores the current state of information literacy initiatives in undergraduate mathematics. The authors survey academic librarians (n = 118) who liaise with mathematics departments in order to gain an understanding of their practices and attitudes…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Academic Libraries
Stauffer, Suzanne M. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2015
In 1897, the University of Chicago Extension Division began offering what we today would call "bibliographic instruction" under the aegis of the Bureau of Information of the Illinois State Library Association. The program was expanded under university librarian Zella Allen Dixson, and by 1900 was designed to train librarians and library…
Descriptors: Educational History, Gender Issues, Power Structure, Gender Bias
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Ippoliti, Cinthya; Baeza, Victor D. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2017
A growing trend at universities is to use digital badges (micro-credentialing) for capturing the "soft skills" students gain outside of the classroom. Libraries can use this opportunity to become campus leaders in digital badges, using the system to not only promote their information literacy activities but to coordinate workshop…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Credentials, Electronic Publishing, Information Literacy
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Moran, Carrie; Mulvihill, Rachel – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2017
The UCF Libraries are continually developing new forms of library instruction to meet the needs of a growing student body with the same number of librarians. These efforts attempt to find the balance between impersonal online tutorials and time-intensive embedded librarianship. The pros and cons of each model employed at our growing university are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Web Based Instruction, Sustainability
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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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Samuelson, Todd; Coker, Cait – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
Instruction is a vital part of the academic librarian's public services mission, but the teaching efforts of special collections librarians can be overlooked due to the culture and particularities of teaching in an archival setting. This article documents the challenges special collections librarians face in integrating their teaching program into…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Library Materials, Special Libraries
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Tewell, Eamon – Communications in Information Literacy, 2015
As information literacy continues in its centrality to many academic libraries' missions, a line of inquiry has developed in response to ACRL's charge to develop information literate citizens. The literature of critical information literacy questions widely held assumptions about information literacy and considers in what ways librarians may…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Literature Reviews, Academic Libraries, Behavioral Objectives
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Pagowsky, Nicole – Communications in Information Literacy, 2015
Library instruction continues to evolve. Regardless of the myriad and conflicting opinions academic librarians have about the ACRL "Framework for Information Literacy," the debates and the document itself have engendered greater discourse surrounding how and why librarians teach. The "Framework" provides an additional push…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Library Instruction, Library Associations, Academic Standards
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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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Cohen, Madeline E. – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2016
This case study focuses on an innovative approach to the flipped classroom as a tool for productive library-discipline faculty collaboration on information literacy instruction. The argument is presented that the flipped classroom can be a pathway into the disciplines that can be used in overcoming the disadvantages of the one-shot and other…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Information Literacy, Outcomes of Education, Business Administration Education
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