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Andrea Baer – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
This article is the third and last of a multi-part study on academic instruction librarians' conceptions and experiences of teacher agency in relation to their instructional work. Based on the findings of an online survey of academic instruction librarians, this final article concentrates on the role that librarian relationships play in academic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes, Library Instruction
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Riesen, Karleigh; Whitver, Sara Maurice – College & Research Libraries, 2023
Library instruction is predicated on the assumption that transfer learning can take place, but how do librarians determine whether transfer is occurring? This study examines the use of reflection as a learning theory within the one-shot library instruction classroom to facilitate metacognition and transfer learning. Through the analysis of student…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Academic Libraries, Transfer of Training, Metacognition
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Ilana Stonebraker; Sarah LeMire – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
This project sought to better understand why course instructors request librarian involvement to teach information literacy skills. Librarians at two large institutions surveyed 29 instructors and then interviewed 11 about their experiences working with librarians, their motivations for involving librarians in their courses, and their goals for…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Librarians, College Faculty, Library Instruction
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Maya Hobscheid; Anna White; Kristin Kerbavaz – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Librarians at a Midwestern, midsized state university studied the application of their flexible programmatic information literacy rubric to one-shot first-year writing library instruction. Ten librarians taught 23 sessions of first-year writing on information access skills and assessed each class using the flexible programmatic information…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Librarians, Library Instruction, Library Skills
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Anne Grant; Kyle Feenstra; Mills Kelly – College & Research Libraries, 2025
This exploratory study seeks to gather preliminary information about the roles that academic librarians in the United States (US) and Canada play in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) work on their campuses. It also provides insight into how librarians at US Carnegie Research 1 (R1) classified universities and U15 Group of Canadian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Learning
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Matthew Weirick Johnson – College & Research Libraries, 2025
Providing library instruction, often via one-shots in someone else's classroom, may reduce feelings of agency or job control for academic instruction librarians. This study addresses potential differences in job control across core responsibilities, specifically looking at the difference between job duties overall and instruction responsibilities.…
Descriptors: Librarian Attitudes, Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Librarians
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Don Latham; Melissa Gross; Heidi Julien – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This paper shares the results of semi-structured interviews with 30 community college librarians who have instruction duties. The interviews explored these librarians' perceptions of students' information literacy (IL) strengths and weaknesses as well as their views of students' self-perceptions. Participants believe that students are confident in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
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Kathia Salomé Ibacache Oliva; Elizabeth Novosel; Stacy Gilbert – College & Research Libraries, 2024
According to a 2021 Pew Research report, over 80 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds use social media. Studies also show that higher education students use social media in both academic and everyday life. However, there is minimal research about how, or whether, librarians utilize social media in their library instruction as a source of information for…
Descriptors: Social Media, Information Literacy, Information Sources, Literacy Education
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O'Kelly, Mary K.; Jeffryes, Jon; Hobscheid, Maya; Passarelli, Rachael – College & Research Libraries, 2023
Eight years of data from Grand Valley State University Libraries show a positive correlation between in-class library instruction and student reenrollment the following fall semester. Using consistent statistical methods over time, controlling for confounding factors, and using a large population (N>16,000 annually) and strict protocols that…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Library Instruction, School Holding Power, Enrollment Rate
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Goodsett, Mandi; Schmillen, Hanna – College & Research Libraries, 2022
As students encounter high volumes of misinformation in online environments, cultivating critical thinking is an important goal of information literacy instruction, especially for first-year college students, who are just beginning to develop cognitive habits in their early years of postsecondary schooling. However, this study demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, College Freshmen, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
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Annette Bochenek; Heather Howard; Zoeanna Mayhook – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2025
Librarians at a large Midwestern university integrated intercultural competencies into an information literacy course taught annually to over 100 first-year business students. The interventions aim to improve intercultural skills and characteristics as defined by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) Intercultural Knowledge…
Descriptors: Business, Introductory Courses, Information Literacy, Business Education
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Kogut, Ashlynn – Communications in Information Literacy, 2021
Whether formally articulated or tacitly held, all librarians have beliefs about how undergraduate students learn. Framing learning beliefs as a component of a teaching philosophy, this study explored how librarians described how undergraduate students learned best. Thirteen librarians from three doctoral universities in Texas were interviewed.…
Descriptors: Librarians, Academic Libraries, Undergraduate Students, Librarian Attitudes
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Breen, Michelle; Waters, Jesse; O'Shea, Louise – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
This study will provide some inspiration and practical insights to academic libraries and educators within tertiary education who wish to experiment with digital upskilling programmes in their institutions. 2,661 students registered for extra-curricular digital skills workshops over a three-week period in the spring of the 2021 academic year, at a…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Information Literacy
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Ward, Lucinda; Kmetz, Thomas – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2023
A recent revamping of a three-credit-hour course, which the library at Morehead State University has offered for more than two decades, prompted the authors to contemplate what it means to modernize information literacy instruction in a credit-bearing format. For the authors, this modernization meant both committing to asynchronous delivery and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, State Universities, Library Instruction, Information Literacy
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Pickard, Elizabeth; Sterling, Sarah – College & Research Libraries, 2022
Which modes of information literacy instruction (ILI) work best in asynchronous online courses? Recent national trends and COVID-19 have made it critical to answer this question, but there is little research comparing different modes of ILI specifically in asynchronous contexts. This multiyear study employed five different modes of ILI in…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Asynchronous Communication, Online Courses
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