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Faulk, Nick; Crist, Emily – College & Research Libraries, 2020
To better understand, articulate, and improve the academic library's impact on online populations, this two-phase mixed-method study examines library communication with online students and faculty. In phase I, online focus group participants responded to vignettes illustrating library communication scenarios. Results from phase I informed the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Instruction, Library Skills
Whitver, Sara Maurice – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
Disability is a reality in the library instruction classroom, yet despite ratification of the American Library Association (ALA) policy on people with disabilities, librarians seldom take part in discourse about restructuring library instruction to ensure it is inclusive and accessible. This essay discusses the imperative to serve students with…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Librarians, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities
Tewell, Eamon C. – College & Research Libraries, 2018
Critical information literacy is a way of thinking and teaching that examines the social construction and political dimensions of libraries and information, problematizing information's production and use so that library users may think critically about such forces. Being an educational approach that acknowledges and emboldens learners' agency,…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Library Instruction
Eastman, Teagan; Lundstrom, Kacy; Strand, Katie; Davis, Erin; Martin, Pamela N. – Communications in Information Literacy, 2018
This study demonstrates how a team of librarians sustained authentic assessment across multiple studies in order to inform changes to an information literacy curriculum. It demonstrates the cyclical and action-based nature of assessment, including closing one loop only to reopen another and begin the assessment process again, emphasizing the…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Library Instruction, Information Literacy, Curriculum Development
Johnson, Spencer T.; Ewbank, Ann Dutton – Knowledge Quest, 2018
One of the main responsibilities of school librarians is to teach students to evaluate the credibility of information. There is little evidence to suggest that students are being explicitly taught how to evaluate news obtained through social media. As avenues for giving and getting information evolve, so must ways of teaching students so that they…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Evaluation Methods, News Media, Social Media
English, Michael; West, Patricia; Jackson, Joi – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2019
With more classes moving online in traditional higher educational institutions, an opportunity exists for academic librarians to increase their instructional presence and use strategies to optimize student information literacy learning. One strategy is using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework to guide their approach. This article details a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction
Phillips, Abigail L.; Lee, Victor R. – School Library Research, 2019
In 2015 the Utah State Legislature passed H.B. 213, "Safe Technology Utilization and Digital Citizenship in Public Schools," mandating that K-12 schools provide digital citizenship instruction. This study presents an exploratory endeavor to understand how school librarians in a state that adopted digital citizenship legislation engage…
Descriptors: State Surveys, School Libraries, Librarian Attitudes, Library Role
Marineo, Francesca; Shi, Qingmin – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2019
This article discusses how the Library and Office of Institutional Research at a public college measured the relationship of an online information literacy module in the learning management system with student success metrics in a first-year experience course. Specifically, the authors examine the relationships of an online instruction module,…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Library Instruction, Integrated Learning Systems
Nichols Hess, Amanda – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2019
As librarians' instructional responsibilities diversify, it is useful to consider what factors influence how they see themselves as educators. In this research, the author used a survey instrument grounded in transformative learning theory to explore what factors librarians who provided online or blended/hybrid instruction felt had impacted their…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Librarians, Academic Libraries, Synchronous Communication
Reade, Tripp – Knowledge Quest, 2017
Tripp Reade is the school librarian at Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, North Carolina. This article describes how he redesigned his school's library orientation program after learning about escape rooms and a variant known as puzzle rooms. Puzzle rooms present players with a set of challenges to solve; they require "teamwork,…
Descriptors: Puzzles, Library Instruction, School Libraries, Teamwork
Kasten-Mutkus, Kathleen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
This paper considers library programming as a means of extending and enhancing the academic library's pedagogical mission and role in student success. Scholarly programming in the form of faculty speakers, film screenings, or other kinds of research-based events creates opportunities for students to join an academic community and to practice…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Role, Library Services, Scholarship
Kohout-Tailor, Jessica; Sheaffer, K. E. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2020
As students are asked to complete multimodal assignments in their higher education courses, librarians can guide students to the use of open educational resources (OER), as many librarians are already teaching students about copyright and how to respect intellectual property rights. Two instructional librarians designed a one-shot lesson for…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Student Empowerment, Assignments, Higher Education
Schaus, Margaret; Snyder, Terry – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018
Every senior at Haverford College writes a thesis or its equivalent, conducting independent research with guidance from faculty and librarians. Students critically engage in investigative work in archives, field studies, and labs. In this article, librarians explore the way anthropology and history thesis writers do research to define paths toward…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Student Research, Theses, Learning Processes
Lewis, Abbey B. – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2018
The CRAAP Test (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose), is a popular tool among academic librarians for instructing students in resource evaluation. Its applicability to web-based information makes it particularly useful for students as they think about information they encounter both inside and outside of scholastic settings. However,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Library Instruction, Information Sources, Evaluation Criteria
Feekery, Angela Joy; Chisholm, Katherine; Jeffrey, Carla; Diesch, Fiona – Journal of Information Literacy, 2021
Creating information literate students and future employees is an expected outcome of a tertiary education. This paper shares insights from a successful collaboration between an academic and three university librarians to create an online learning module designed to develop students' professional information literacy capability: identifying…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, College Faculty, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Academic Libraries