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Morin, Leah – Communications in Information Literacy, 2021
An academic librarian providing one-shot instruction sessions to first-year students is uniquely positioned to enact a feminist ethic of care in the classroom. First-year university students are particularly in need of caring. The library instruction session is often their introduction to and first impression of the library and an opportunity to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Library Instruction, Caring, Academic Libraries
Barrett, Kathryn; Logan, Judith; Pagotto, Sabina; Greenberg, Amy – Communications in Information Literacy, 2020
This study investigated 299 chat reference interactions from an academic library consortium for instances of teaching and compared these against other characteristics of the chat, such as question content, staff type, user status, user satisfaction, institutional affiliation, length, and shift busyness. Statistical analysis revealed that teaching…
Descriptors: User Satisfaction (Information), Library Services, Academic Libraries, Computer Mediated Communication
Keba, Michelle; Fairall, Elizabeth – Communications in Information Literacy, 2020
Information literacy is the primary instructional focus of many librarians. With the development of a core set of information literacy threshold concepts, librarians often strive to impart these concepts to undergraduate students during their years of study. However, when students come to school, they are not blank slates. They arrive with…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Misconceptions, First Year Seminars, College Freshmen
Wissinger, Christina L. – Communications in Information Literacy, 2017
Libraries and librarians have dealt with patron privacy issues since their inception, often serving as educators and advocates. In today's social media-filled landscape, patron privacy has moved from the safeguarding of traditional library records to the creation, use, and ownership of information maintained in an online world. As the core…
Descriptors: Library Services, Privacy, Theory Practice Relationship, Social Media
Carter, Sarah; Koopmans, Heather; Whiteside, Alice – Communications in Information Literacy, 2018
Artists often require visual and inspirational information sources that range outside of library walls and websites, and develop their work within the complex social environment of the studio. Librarians historically engage with studio art and design students using multiple standards documents. This article offers an analytical literature review…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Information Literacy, Artists, Library Services
Ariew, Susan – Communications in Information Literacy, 2014
This paper outlines a brief history of the academic teaching library and, in consequence, it examines the changing role of librarians. As part of that history, the paper also discusses distinctions among various terms used to describe instructional activities in teaching libraries, such as "bibliographic instruction" and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Instruction, Library Role