Recent articles: STEM & AI; CIL

- Chomintra, M., & Pascuzzi, P. E. (2025). GIS Librarians’ Involvement in Critical Information Literacy Instruction. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 112. https://doi.org/10.29173/istl2923 [GIS = Geographic information systems] (open access)

- Matthews, D. J., Wheeler, A., Insley, H. A., & Mackintosh, D. C. (2025). Promoting the Ethical and Appropriate Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in STEM Subjects at a University: An Opportunity for Increased Classroom Collaboration Between Lecturers and Librarians? Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 112. https://doi.org/10.29173/istl2935 (open access)
Photo by Sheila Webber: Edinburgh, December 2025

New articles: privacy literacy; online teaching; primary source literacy; relational teaching; trauma-informed practice

I thought I should mention other articles (in addition to the one mentioned yesterday) in the latest issue (volume 22 no. 1) of priced publication portal: libraries and the academy. It includes:
- “Making It Happen”: Building Relational Teaching into the Online World of COVID-19 by Carol A. Leibiger, Alan W. Aldrich
- Privacy Literacy: From Doomscrolling to Digital Wellness by Alexandria Chisholm, Sarah Hartman-Caverly
- Primary Source Literacy in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond by Heidi Craig, Kevin M. O’Sullivan
- Keep Teaching: Leveraging Disruption as a Catalyst for Change by Rachel W. Gammons, Suzanne Wilson, Lindsay Inge Carpenter, Benjamin Shaw ("In response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries quickly switched to online teaching and learning. This disruption created a chance for innovation, allowing the UMD Libraries to scale back nonessential functions and focus on improving mission-critical work.")
- Reexamining Geospatial Instruction through the “Digital Place” by Méch Frazier, Kelsey Rydland ("This article discusses how the authors changed their approach to geospatial and data analysis instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.")
- Imperfect and Flexible: Using Trauma-Informed Practice to Guide Instruction by Katherine Nelsen, Kate Peterson, Lacie McMillin, Kimberly Clarke - Bridging the Digital Divide: Wi-Fi Hot Spots as a Means of Digital Equity by Meghan Salsbury, Mary Anne Hansen
- Fish, Not Fishing Lessons: A Pragmatic Reprioritization of Reference Services by Sarah E. Fancher, Sarah H. Mabee ("Reference services in academic libraries often focus on user education and giving students the skills to perform their own searches. This article describes a new Research Concierge Service established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by Ozarks Technical Community College (OTC) in southwest Missouri. The service entails library staff curating a small number of sources in response to a student’s research request. In many cases, the librarians’ guidance has led to sustained interactions with students, refining their questions and helping them to focus their research interests. The Research Concierge Service has become so popular that the high level of individual contact it requires may eventually exceed the capacity of OTC’s limited staff. OTC librarians believe, however, that such personal interactions are more valuable than any of their current opportunities for group tutorials or library instruction.")
Go to https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47125

Photo by Sheila Webber: windows in my room, Chapelgarth, March 2022

IL in geology/geography

Blake, L. and Warner, T. (2011) "Seeing the Forest of Information for the Trees of Papers: An Information Literacy Case Study in a Geography/Geology Class." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, (64). "The most valuable lesson that we, as collaborators, have learned from the Information Literacy Course Enhancement Project, is that it is not enough for a librarian or a faculty member to be committed to the importance of information literacy skills in the academic success of students. Both librarians and teaching faculty must have a good understanding of information literacy and the value of incorporating it into the curriculum." http://www.istl.org/11-winter/refereed2.html
The issue also includes "Assessing Information-Seeking Behavior of Computer Science and Engineering Faculty" by Valerie Tucci http://www.istl.org/11-winter/refereed5.html (Thanks to Hazel Edmunds for spotting this)
Photo by Sheila Webber: Sheffield, April 2011

Three articles and a dissertation

I must confess that I found these when I was doing a vanity citation search on my publications:
- Kerr, P. (2010) Conceptions and practice of information literacy in academic libraries: espoused practice and theories-in-use. PhD dissertation, Rutgers University.
The complete dissertation is available from the pdf link at http://mss3.libraries.rutgers.edu/dlr/showfed.php?pid=rutgers-lib:27317
- Bruce, C., and Hughes, H. (2010) "Informed learning: a pedagogical construct attending simultaneously to information use and learning." Library and information science research, 32 (4), Special Issue SI A2-A8.
There is a copy of this in the QUT eprints archive: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/38705/
- Price, B. (2010) "Teaching Effective Literature Use Skills for Research Reports in Geography." Journal of geography in higher education. 34 (2), 247-264. "Results demonstrate that a relatively basic approach of explicitly teaching effective literature use can be effective and improve students' research report writing skills."
- Aharony, A. (2010) "Information literacy in the professional literature: an exploratory analysis." Aslib proceedings, 62 (3), 261-282.
Photo by Sheila Webber: a snowy campus today (former Jessop hospital, and the former church is a lecture hall and student accommodation).