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Kari D. Weaver; Kate Mercer; Stephanie Mutch – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
This paper explores the connection between critical theory, information evaluation, and the instructional practice of critique for STEM students and librarian instructors. Using an emerging theory and instructional method, the authors examine how to more deeply include voices that have historically been excluded from STEM information critique. The…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, STEM Education, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods
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Maddison, Tasha; Beneteau, Donna; Sokoloski, Brandy – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2014
This case study describes the use of flipped teaching for information literacy instruction in a new course, "Drill, Blast, and Excavate GeoE 498," within the mining option for geological engineering (GeoE) students. These students will enter the mining industry with less discipline-specific knowledge than a student that graduated with a…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Information Literacy, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students
Santana Arroyo, Sonia – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2013
Health professionals frequently do not possess the necessary information-seeking abilities to conduct an effective search in databases and Internet sources. Reference librarians may teach health professionals these information and technology skills through the Big6 information literacy model (Big6). This article aims to address this issue. It also…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Skills, Basic Skills, Models
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Niles, Phyllis – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
This paper will examine the learning needs of millennial students, a generation different from any previous generation, so librarians should adjust their teaching methods to accommodate their needs. Should we, as librarians, consider changing our reference services--the way we present instruction and the materials that we order for the library?…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Librarians, Teaching Methods, User Needs (Information)
Jones, Steve; Allen, Julie – Psychology Teaching Review, 2012
Extensive engagement with current academic sources is expected of all psychology undergraduates. Thirty-eight undergraduate psychology students took part in a series of focus group discussions of their information-searching experiences and skills. The majority of students had not been required to engage with any form of information searching while…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Psychology, Focus Groups, Library Skills
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Carlson, Kathleen – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2011
This paper takes a look at how one academic health sciences librarian brought mediated literature searching to the distance RN to BSN nursing students. It takes a look at why Adobe Connect was the webinar software that was selected to deliver online instruction to the students. The article explains how students participated in a pre-class survey…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Sciences
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Blummer, Barbara A.; Kritskaya, Olga – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2009
In the digital era, information literacy skills enable users to locate and use online materials effectively. One persistent library service for libraries is providing skills training to students. This article traces the creation of online library instructional tutorials, currently referred to as digital learning objects, in academic libraries. It…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Information Skills, Library Services
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Holmes, Jason; Robins, David; Zhang, Yin; Salaba, Athena – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2008
In this study, students' use of a new educational Web portal was evaluated with particular emphasis on searching and browsing strategies. The effects and implications of a federated search system are also discussed. Fifty-four students, ranging from 5th to 12th grade, were given five tasks to complete using the SchoolRooms interface. The tasks…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Time on Task, Information Literacy, Internet
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Cox, Christopher – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006
Federated search products are becoming more and more prevalent in academic libraries. What are the implications of this phenomenon for instruction librarians? An analysis of federated search products using the "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education" and a thorough review of the literature offer insight concerning whether…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Search Strategies
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Brunvand, Amy; Pashkova-Balkenhol, Tatiana – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2008
Among librarians, government information has a reputation for being a valuable but underused resource. A literature review of undergraduate citation studies, however, reveals that the use of government information has apparently increased so much for some subject areas that, after books and journals, it has become one of the most frequently used…
Descriptors: Government Publications, Information Literacy, User Needs (Information), Librarians
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Avery, Susan; Hahn, Jim; Zilic, Melissa – Public Services Quarterly, 2008
Given the many changes in our students and their study and research practices, libraries are finding it necessary to seek new ways to reach these students. The Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created a new model to do so. Librarian's Office Hours are a hybrid of reference and instructional services that…
Descriptors: College Students, Research Papers (Students), Study Habits, Educational Change
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Elder, Kate; Miller, Jane – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 1998
While the "information superhighway" offers new opportunities for independent research and study, the amount of information available requires users to have a high level of information-literacy skills. Librarians are in the best position to facilitate the development of these skills and to instruct clients in the use of search and…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Retrieval, Information Skills, Information Technology
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Jones, Ray; Seale, Colleen – RSR Reference Services Review, 1988
Discussion of issues concerned with providing library reference services to machine readable data files focuses on numeric databases. The team approach used at the University of Florida, which incorporates reference librarians, programers and data managers, database producers and vendors, and professional associations, is described. A bibliography…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Networks, Library Instruction, Library Role
van Brakel, Pieter A. – 1996
The Internet and its features such as e-mail; listservs; FTP and Telnet; navigators such as Archie, gophers, and the World Wide Web; and Web search engines have had a profound effect on the nature of online systems. This paper discusses the effect the Internet might have in the way online searching should be taught. The paper provides background…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Design
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Cardwell, Catherine; Furlong, Katherine; O'Keeffe, Julie – Research Strategies, 2002
Describes personalized research clinics (PRC) programs at three diverse institutions: Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania), Marquette University (Wisconsin), and Bowling Green State University (Ohio). Addresses logistics, publicity methods, program analysis, and assessment issues, and weighs the benefits of the labor-intensive service against other…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Design, Higher Education
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