New articles: Students' infolit; Online teaching; First-year writing courses; Zines

The latest issue of open access journal College and Research Libraries (Vol 86 Issue 2 2025) includes:
- Assessing Students’ Information Literacy: Attitudes and Perceptions of College Students Across Generations by Heather A. Dalal, Arthur Taylor, Sharon Whitfield
- Ongoing Changes in Virtual Reference and Online Instruction in Academic Libraries by Caterina Reed, Paria Aria, Guinsly Mondésir, Harvey Long
- Speaking the Same Language: A Phenomenological Study Investigating Librarian and Writing Instructor Shared Frameworks in First-Year Writing Courses by Amy C. Rice, Dennis D. Cartwright, Lauren Hays, Grace Veach
- The Role of Academic Libraries in the Shifting Landscape of Zines by Evan Bobrow
- Assessing the Impact of Consultations with Librarians on Faculty Research: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study by Rachel A. Koenig, John W. Cyrus (not so much about information literacy, but sheds light on faculty's perceptions of librarians)
Go to https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/issue/view/1673/showToc
Photo by Sheila Webber: On the Heath, February 2025

New articles: #Infolit for first years; teacher librarians' experience of teaching; Librarians involved in systematic review; Librarians and #SoTL

The latest issue of open access journal College and Research Libraries (Vol 86 Issue 1 2025) includes:
- Sarah LeMire, Zhihong Xu, and Doug Hahn. First-Year and First-Gen: Assessing the Information Literacy Skills of First-Year, First-Generation College Students.
- Matthew Weirick Johnson. Job Control, Library Instruction, and Burnout: A Quantitative Analysis of Academic Instruction Librarians’ Experiences of Job Control While Teaching.
- Catherine Boden, Susan Bolton, and Angie Gerrard. Health Sciences and Beyond: An Investigation into Canadian Librarian Participation in Systematic Reviews Across Disciplines.
- Anne Grant, Kyle Feenstra, and Mills Kelly. Why Does SoTL [Scholarship of Teaching & Learning] Happen in a Librarian-Free Zone?
Go to https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/issue/view/1670/showTocPhoto by Sheila Webber: snow in November 2024. The snow is still on the ground now, but less picturesque

New articles: First year writing; #OERs; eTextbooks

The latest issue of open access College & Research Libraries News (vol. 85 no. 11, 2024) includes:
- Peer Reviewing Sources: A Framework-Informed Approach to Information Literacy in First-Year Writing by Julia Kovatch, Bryce Nishikawa, Loring Pfeiffer, Nicole Branch, and Julia Voss.
- Gateways to OERs: Scaffolded Strategies for Success by Lori Lysiak
- Connecting Students to Free Course Materials: An eTextbook Portal Using Digital Commons and WordPress by Lily Dubach, Lee Dotson, Bobby Ciullo, and Kerri Bottorff.
Go to https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/issue/view/1669/showToc
Photo by Sheila Webber: autumn branches, November 2024

New articles: LGBTQ+ students; IL taxonomy; First years; Peer observation of teaching

Here is the 2nd installment of articles from the latest issue of the open-access Journal of Information Literacy (vol 18 number 1) which marks 50 years since Zurkowski coined the phrase "information literates" (yesterday I listed special-issue contents):
- The self-tracking information literacy practices of LGBTQ+ students: Empowerment through self-knowledge by Pamela McKinney, Corin Peacock, Andrew Cox
- Fostering self-reflection on library instruction: Testing a peer observation instrument focused on questioning strategies by Eric Silberberg
- Building a bridge between skills and thresholds Using Bloom’s to develop an information literacy taxonomy by Amanda Folk, Katie Blocksidge, Jane Hammons, Hanna Primeau
- Moving beyond anxiety: The emotional research experiences of first-year students by Katie Blocksidge, Hanna Primeau
Go to https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/issue/view/47
Photo by Sheila Webber: white roses, June 2024

New articles: Texts+podcasts; teaching to teach; virtual cohorts

The February 2024 issue of open access College & Research Libraries News is now available and includes:
- Terri Artemchik, Kirk Kirk, Eleanor Colbert, and Sarah Rebecca Velazquez Gaglio. Teaching to Teach: Developing a Collaborative Instruction Training Program for MLIS Interns.
- Ruth Monnier and Nena Schvaneveldt. Cohorts Building Community: Fostering Connection in Virtual Cohorts.
- Amy Barlow. Pairing Texts and Podcasts: Teaching Scholarship as Conversation in First-Year Seminar.
Go to https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/issue/view/1652/showToc
Photo by Sheila Webber: Snow, February 2024

Recent articles: Outcomes; Disinformation; Print/digital preferences; Social media evaluation; Searching as strategic exploration

I need to catch up on articles from the Journal of Academic Librarianship (a priced publication)! The last 2 issues of Volume 49 (2023), include the following:
- Miller, K. Kaufmann, K. & Trnka, R.E. (2023). Measuring outcomes: Information literacy instruction assessment in a cross-institutional study. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(6), article 102796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102796.
- Chomintra, M. (2023) Assessing the use of critical literacies in mis/disinformation literacy instruction. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(5), article 102762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102762. Rather curiously this article posits in the abstract that "The approaches to mis/disinformation in libraries and information studies have largely been grounded in two forms of literacy education; media literacy and digital literacy" but it is interesting in taking selected lesson plans uploaded to the ACRL sandbox and project CORA and doing a text analysis, including for Equity diversity inclusion and social justice terms.
- Chyne, R.C., Khongtim, J. & Wann, T. (2023). Evaluation of social media information among college students: An information literacy approach using CCOW. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 49(5), article 102771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102771. CCOW = Credentials, Claims, Objectives, Worldview. "The findings highlighted significant differences in the evaluation of social media information following the implementation of the CCOW information literacy approach."
- Dahlqvist, C.(2023). Cognitive and motivational qualities of task instruction: Cognitive appraisals and achievement emotions of Swedish primary teacher students. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(6), article 102797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102797.
- Johnson, B. & Reed, E. (2023) The impact of cultural capital on searching as strategic exploration in incoming first-year students. The Journal of Academic Librarianship,49(6), article 102807, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102807.
- Yu, C. (2023). Integrating Information Literacy and Academic Writing: Developing a Self-Assessment Scale of Information-Based Academic Writing. The Journal of Academic Librarianship,49(6), article 102804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102804.
- Shehata, A. & Eldakar,M. (2023). Scholarly communication practices and attitudes of Egyptian junior researchers: An exploratory study. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(6), article 102811, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102811.
- Matthews, J. & Johnson, A. (2023). Preferring print: The planned behavior and preferences of first-generation college students in the academic library. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(6), article 102813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102813.

Image by Sheila Webber using Midjourney AI with prompt librarian heroine saving books in a forest --niji 5 cute

Information Literacy presentations

Presentations from the LOEX Fall Focus conference held in November 2023 have been posted. One focus was developing colleagiues research and practice (for example materials are given from a workshop on Cultivating Community with Future Colleagues: Reference and Instruction Skill Building) Another theme was the first year experience, including first-generation students (e.g. More Than One Shot: Collectively Scaffolding Information Literacy in the First-Year Seminar and they include a link to lesson plans at http://lib.uncw.edu/il-uni101) There are also materials from a workshop on Generative Discussions on Generative AI: Preparing Librarians to Teach about Artificial Intelligence.
Go to https://loexfallfocus.org/session-materials/
Photo by Sheila Webber: Napoleaon's tomb, Paris, November 2023

New articles: Source evaluation; First years; Asia

Faix, A. & Daniels, T. (2023). Teaching SIFT for Source Evaluation in Asynchronous One-Credit Information Literacy Courses. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 23(3), 449-459. http://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2023.a901563. [this journal is a priced publication]
- Roth, A., Goldman, C., Amorao, A.S., & Turnbow, D. (2023). Breaking the Ice: Introducing First-Year Writing Students to “Scholarship as Conversation”. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 23(3), 571-591. http://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2023.a901568
- Ashiq, M., Adil, H.M., & Batool, S.H. (2023). Information Literacy Research in Asia: A Bibliometric Analysis. portal: Libraries and the Academy 23(3), 593-619. http://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2023.a901569
"From the Scopus database, the study’s authors extracted bibliographic data on IL from Asian countries. The findings revealed that 20 of 48 countries in Asia produced no publications on the topic. The last few years, however, have seen remarkable growth in Asian IL literature."
Photo by Sheila Webber: squirrel in the botanic gardens, July 2023

Posters from #LILi2023

Posters from the 2023 LILi (Lifelong Information Literacy) Conference, held in July 2023, are available at https://lili.libguides.com/lili2023/posters, including Lost in Translation: Forgotten Librarians and AI Literacy Development; TILTing the Library's Online Tutorials; and Integrating Information Literacy Into The First Year Experience . All have abstracts, and the "posters" are in various formats, including videos, ThingLink (and image with embedded text and an embedded video), slides.
There are also links to slides from some conference sessions at https://lili.libguides.com/lili2023/schedule Thanks to Esther Grassian for the link.
Photo by Sheila Webber: mixed hydrangeas, July 2023

New articles: Information seeking; Self-efficacy; School to university

The latest complete issue of the Journal of Academic Librarianship (a priced publication), Volume 49 issue 4 (2023), includes the following:
- In their words: Student reflections on information-seeking behaviors by Sarah P.C. Dahlen, Kathlene Hanson
- Investigating the impact of demographic and academic variables on assessing students' perceived information literacy self-efficacy by Md. Atikuzzaman, S.M. Zabed Ahmed
- What I had, what I needed: First-year students reflect on how their high school experience prepared them for college research by Brenda Boyer, Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott
Go to https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-journal-of-academic-librarianship/vol/49/issue/4

Photo by Sheila Webber: Rose "Judy Dench" (should be "Judi"!), June 2023

Recent articles: Epistemic curiosity; Spotting misinformation; LibGuides for indigenous studies; Students' data practices

The latest issue of open access journal College & Research Libraries (Vol 83, No 6, 2022) has been published. It includes:

- Investigating Nontraditional First-Year Students’ Epistemic Curiosity During the Research Process: An Exploratory, Mixed-Methods Study by Michelle Keba Knecht
- Diving Deep into Dissertations: Analyzing Graduate Students’ Methodology and Data Practices to Inform Research Data Services and Subject Liaison Librarian Support by Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, Raeda Anderson, Denise George, Joel Glogowski
- Preparing College Students for a Digital Age: A Survey of Instructional Approaches to Spotting Misinformation by Nadav Ziv, Emma Bene
- From Pathfinder to Indigenized: An Assessment of LibGuides for Indigenous Studies by ARL Member Institutions by Kristen J. Nyitray, Dana Reijerkerk
Go to https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/issue/view/1627/showToc
Photo by Sheila Webber: autumn leaves on the bench, October 2022

New articles: First years; OERs; Decolonising; CCOW; Flipped; Informed research; COVID-19 & information literacy

There is a new issue (volume 16 no. 1) of the open-access Journal of Information Literacy. The articles are as follows (here are also book reviews and reports on the LILAC conference).
- A difference that matters: Disability activism, scholarship and community: Alison Hicks (editorial)
- Unsettling information literacy: Exploring critical approaches with academic researchers for decolonising the university: Frances Marsh
- Integrating information practices into everyday teaching: Jonathan William Phillips, Andrew Whitworth
- Reading between the lines: An examination of first-year university students’ perceptions of and confidence with information literacy: Beverly J Dann, Anne Drabble, Janet Martin
- Instructional elements in an online information literacy Open Educational Resource (OER) and their influence on learner achievement, satisfaction, and self-efficacy: Max Sommer, John Hampton, Angela M. Kohnen, Albert D. Ritzhaupt
- Faces of informed research: Enabling research collaboration: Clarence Maybee, Susan Gasson, Christine Susan Bruce, Mary Somerville
- An investigation into information literacy education in library schools in Nigeria: Monica Eberechukwu Eze, Doris Emetarom Aduba
- Have a CCOW: A CRAAP alternative for the internet age: Anthony Bernard Tardiff
- Intentional librarian-student interactions during COVID-19: Heather A. Dalal, Leslin H. Charles, Megan Dempsey, Cara Berg, Rebecca D. Bushby, Joan Dalrymple
- Using coaching techniques to teach information literacy to first year English undergraduates Sarah Wolfenden
- Improving information literacy and academic skills tuition through flipped online delivery: Laurence Morris, Lindsey McDermott
- Technical practices used by information literacy and media information literacy services to enable academic libraries to handle the COVID-19 pandemic: Eugenia de los Angeles Ortega-Martínez, César Saavedra-Alamillas
- The development and use of online information literacy activities to engage first year health students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Gillian Siddall
Go to https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/issue/view/235

Photo by Sheila Webber: poppy, bee, May 2022

Keeping Up With . . . First-Year Experience

The latest in the ACRL Keeping up with... series is Keeping Up With . . . First-Year Experience. As usual, the publication has short explanations plus links to further reading. https://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/fye

New articles: Library UX; Objects; Critical Thinking; Academic freedom

The latest issue (vol 83 no. 1) of open access journal College & Research Libraries contains:
- Fostering Critical Thinking in First-Year Students through Information Literacy Instruction by Mandi Goodsett, Hanna Schmillen ("Through a series of in-depth interviews, the researchers sought to understand how academic librarians who primarily instruct first-year college students conceive of, teach, and assess critical thinking skills in relation to information literacy.")
- Academic Freedom and (Anti) Social Media? by Wendi Arant Kaspar
- Toward a Critical Turn in Library UX by Maura Seale, Alison Hicks, Karen P. Nicholson ("We contend that UX would benefit from a deeper engagement with user-centered theories emerging from Library and Information Science (LIS) and critical and feminist perspectives on practice, embodiment, and power or risk perpetuating oppressive, hegemonic ideas about the academic library as a white space and its users as able-bodied.")
- Standing Out or Blending In: Academic Libraries in the Crowded Informal Learning Space Ecosystem by Erica Lynn DeFrain, Jennifer Thoegersen, Miyoung Hong ("Using mixed methods, this study examines the relationship between students’ use, satisfaction, and productivity needs at five discrete locations at a large public university.")
- Why Objects Matter in Higher Education by Joanna Cobley ("This article provides insight into what happened when students engaged with authentic historical artifacts for the purposes of learning for the first time.")
Go to https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/issue/view/1611/showToc

Photo by Sheila Webber: Hedge and sky, Chapelgarth, December 2021

Transition and information literacy

As we leave behind 2021 and move to 2022, here are some articles on transition:
- Bent, M. (2008). Perceptions of Information Literacy in the Transition to Higher Education. National Teaching Fellowship Project Report. Newcastle University. https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/55850 open access (research carried out in the UK as part of a National Teaching Fellowship. The aim was "to investigate the conflicts and congruencies between staff and student perceptions of information literacy in the transition to higher education, particularly in Chemistry and English" and data was gathered through interviews, focus groups, survey and also workshops developing findings with professionals. It includes some discussion of Threshold Concepts and information literacy - well before ACRL addressed this connection).
- Hicks, A. (2020). Negotiating change: Transition as a central concept for information literacy. Journal of Information Science. (early online publication - open access) https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0165551520949159
- Salisbury, F. & Karasmanis, S. (2011) Are they Ready? Exploring Student Information Literacy Skills in the Transition from Secondary to Tertiary Education. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 42(1), 43-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048623.2011.10722203 (reports on a results of questionnaire/test of 1029 first year health science students: one of the most useful recommendations identifies the value of inderstanding more about the existing skill/knowledge of the students, so you can develop a programme that builds on this).
- Varlejs, J. & Stec, E. (2014). Factors Affecting Students' Information Literacy as They Transition from High School to College. School Library Research, 17. Open access at https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1022549 (interesting study in which they assessed information literacy through a few different means in a first year university course, then identified the schools the students had previously attended, and interviewed librarians in schools where students had either scored very well or poorly. They identify a number of factors that appear to influence the information literacy of new university students, but in particular identify an aspect that wasn't talked about (i.e. the administration and culture of the schools) as being an important hidden factor)
Photo by Sheila Webber: the wreath at number 31, December 2021

Recent articles: IL education in the pandemic; Librarians as faculty; Question formulation; First year perceptions of libraries

I continue catching up with issues of the Journal of Academic Librarianship (a priced publication), this time Volume 47 issue 4 (July 2021) which includes the following:
- Question formulation for information literacy: Theory and practice by Davida Scharf & Joanne Dera https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102365 "We introduce the idea that question formulation is critical to information literacy, and should be explicitly taught and studied to improve instruction. We investigate existing theoretical frameworks about question formulation and highlight the few practical studies and resources. We articulate a QF-IL Research Model, identify research gaps, and propose a research agenda for academic librarians."
- Information literacy education during the pandemic: The cases of academic libraries in Chinese top universities by Jinchi Guo, Jie Huang https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102363
- A perspective on librarians as unexpected teaching faculty: The imperative of clear policy by Sharon Holderman https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102343 (this relates to the North American context, where there is academic tenure, and academic librarians can become tenured).
- Similarly different: Finding the nuances in first year students' library perceptions by Sarah LeMire, Stephanie J. Graves, Sarah Bankston, Jennifer Wilhelm https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102352 Photo by Sheila Webber: friend's cat, September 2021

New articles: ACRL Framework; Fake news; Flipped classroom; Library anxiety; Peer teaching

The latest issue of the Journal of Academic Librarianship (Volume 47 issue 2) includes the following (priced publication - though one article, marked below, is open access):
- The ACRL Framework successes and challenges since 2016: A survey by Ma Lei Hsieh, Patricia H. Dawson, Sharon Q. Yang (" The findings indicate that other than course assignments, the Framework is librarians' most used document for their instruction.")
- Training peer teachers to teach first year graduate level information literacy sessions by Frances Brady
- Exploring potential roles of academic libraries in undergraduate data science education curriculum development by Gang Shao, Jenny P. Quintana, Wei Zakharov, Senay Purzer, Eunhye Kim
- Much more than a mere technology: A systematic review of Wikidata in libraries by Karim Tharani (Open access)
- Flipped classroom pedagogy in an online learning environment: A self-regulated introduction to information literacy threshold concepts by Elizabeth Humrickhouse
- Library anxiety among Omani and Saudi Arabian international students: A case study at the University of South Carolina, USA by Esra Seddiq Abdoh
- Librarians against fake news: A systematic literature review of library practices (Jan. 2018–Sept. 2020) by Jorge Revez, Luís Corujo
Go to https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-journal-of-academic-librarianship/vol/47/issue/2
Photo by Sheila Webber: cherry blossom, March 2021

New articles: Embedding metaliteracy; Evaluating sources; Critical thinking; First year experience; Community colleges

The latest issue of Communications in Information Literacy (Volume 14, Issue 2) contains: 

- Assessing the Potential for Critical Thinking Instruction in Information Literacy Online Learning Objects Using Best Practices by Mandi Goodsett 

- Instructional Experience and Teaching Identities: How Academic Librarians’ Years of Experience in Instruction Impact their Perceptions of Themselves as Educators by Amanda Nichols Hess 

- Teaching and User Satisfaction in an Academic Chat Reference Consortium by Kathryn Barrett, Judith Logan, Sabina Pagotto, and Amy Greenberg 

- Critical Thinking in a Service-Learning Course: Impacts of Information Literacy Instruction by Heather R. Kennedy and Anne Marie H. Gruber 

- Not a Blank Slate: Information Literacy Misconceptions in First-Year Experience Courses by Michelle Keba and Elizabeth Fairall

 - The Journalistic Approach: Evaluating Web Sources in an Age of Mass Disinformation by Victoria Elmwood 

- Information Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Community College Librarians in Florida and New York by Heidi Julien, Don Latham, Melissa Gross, Lindsey Moses, and Felicia Warren 

- Professional Development for Research-Writing Instructors: A Collaborative Approach by Melissa Bowles-Terry and Kaitlin Clinnin 

- Embedding Metaliteracy in the Design of a Post-Truth MOOC: Building Communities of Trust by Thomas P. Mackey 

- Analyzing Information Sources Through the Lens of the ACRL Framework: A Case Study of Wikipedia by Trudi E. Jacobson 

- A Noteworthy Next Class: Making Learning Objectives Work for You by Amy B. James 

Plus book reviews of: The Engaged Library: High-Impact Educational Practices in Academic Libraries; and Learning Beyond the Classroom: Engaging Students in Information Literacy through Co-Curricular Activities; and Meeting the Challenge of Teaching Information Literacy

Go to https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/vol14/iss2/

Photo by Sheila Webber: wreaths of South London, December 2020

Not so recent articles: Information behaviour; Reflective journals; Embedding digital citizenship

A few articles I missed first time round (all open access):
- Steinerová, J. (2016). Information literacy studies and human information behaviour. Paper presented at NASIV Visegrád-V4 information education workshop in Brno. http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/135935 (a useful review)
- Dunne, S. and Sheridan, V. (2012). Developing First Year Student Information Literacy: Reflections On The Learning Process. AISHE-J, 4(1). https://ojs.aishe.org/index.php/aishe-j/article/view/72 "This article evaluates first year student’s engagement with information literacy as they make the transition to third level education. For part of their assessment for a core module, students maintained reflective journals. These journals have provided the data for a qualitative, grounded theory study which has been analysed by the academic and librarian who delivered the module. Results demonstrate that students find transition problematic and spend their first semester in a state of uncertainty but the reflective journals aid them in thinking about their achievements in relation to their developing academic skills, including information literacy, during their first semester.
- Cooney, C., Nugent, K. and Howard, K. (2018). Embedding Digital Citizenship In A Higher Education Institute. AISHE-J, 10(2). https://ojs.aishe.org/index.php/aishe-j/article/view/360 "This paper presents an account of the genesis, rationale and implementation of an initiative to promote responsible Digital Citizenship in Higher Education settings. The genesis was concern about the negative impacts of inappropriate online activity within the DkIT community. The norms of virtual interaction appeared to be different to those which shape our face to face, physical interactions. Therefore, our rationale was to create a dialogue within our HE setting that sought to challenge this false division. The initiative's theoretical underpinning synthesised literature from Community Development, Republican Citizenship and the Social Psychology of online communications. We implemented a two strand response: firstly an awareness raising, train-the-trainer model of peer-led workshops, which is now embedded as part of the first year students’ formal induction. Secondly, a proposed mediation process based on Restorative Justice principles to allow those harmed by the Social Media actions of others to be heard and their concerns addressed. The evaluation of our initiative indicates the emergence of cultural change within our institution in relation to online behaviour. Furthermore this knowledge and experience will contribute to and inform discussions about how best to shape the norms of online interaction within and across our HE communities."
Photo by Sheila Webber: Wreaths of Kelham Island 2, December 2019

Recent articles: action research; narrative instruction; innovative information seeking

Volume 45 issue 5 (2019) of the priced Journal of Academic Librarianship includes the following articles:
- Exploring Innovative Information Seeking: The Perspectives of Cognitive Switching and Affinity with Digital Libraries by Xianjin Zha, Fenfang Cao, Yalan Yan, Jia Guo, Juan Wang
- Embracing the Spiral: An Action Research Assessment of a Library-Honors First Year Collaboration by Sarah LeMire, Thomas D. Sullivan, Jonathan Kotinek ("In this article, researchers use an action research methodology to explore the effect of information literacy instruction on first-year honors student assignments. The researchers explain how they implemented multiple cycles of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting in order to better understand student needs, increase the impact of library instruction, and communicate that impact to library and external stakeholders. Robust and cyclical assessment gave librarians and their strategic partners the opportunity to make iterative improvements to instruction, address issues of overconfidence in students, and make the case for additional information literacy instructional opportunities for honors students.")
- Telling their stories: A study of librarians' use of narrative in instruction by Mindy Thuna, Joanna Szurmak (it "uses a phenomenological methodology and semi-structured interviews with 19 academic librarians who teach in Canadian higher education institutions to determine what narrative tools or approaches they use, and to what extent these practices may enrich both their outcomes and their teaching praxis.")
Go to https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-journal-of-academic-librarianship/vol/45/issue/5
Photo by Sheila Webber: autumn rose, September 2019