Service Learning, Information Literacy, and Libraries
Service Learning, Information Literacy, and Libraries

Author: Jennifer E. Nutefall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2016-04-04

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 144084092X

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As the number of service learning courses and their requirements increase, it is essential for academic librarians to partner with faculty and administration to include lifelong research skills components. This crucial book provides insights and case studies that will help you do just that. Service learning—defined as community service connected to a for-credit college course—is acknowledged to be a high-impact educational practice. It provides students with opportunities to put what they learn in class into action, to engage problem-solving skills, and to reflect on their experiences. Ideally, in service learning, course materials inform student service, and students' service experiences, in turn, inform academic dialogue and comprehension. But where do academic libraries and librarians fit into this process? This is the first book to provide that missing piece, giving librarians practical information and examples of how to contribute to service learning on their campuses. It begins with an overview of librarian involvement in service learning, highlighting connections between service learning and information literacy pedagogy. Case studies focus on specific aspects of service learning that engage information literacy, illustrating ways academic libraries can partner with service learning initiatives. The book concludes with thoughts on assessment and short essays on the future of libraries and service learning.

Service Learning, Information Literacy, and Libraries
Service Learning, Information Literacy, and Libraries

Author: Jennifer E. Nutefall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2016-04-04

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13:

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As the number of service learning courses and their requirements increase, it is essential for academic librarians to partner with faculty and administration to include lifelong research skills components. This crucial book provides insights and case studies that will help you do just that. Service learning—defined as community service connected to a for-credit college course—is acknowledged to be a high-impact educational practice. It provides students with opportunities to put what they learn in class into action, to engage problem-solving skills, and to reflect on their experiences. Ideally, in service learning, course materials inform student service, and students' service experiences, in turn, inform academic dialogue and comprehension. But where do academic libraries and librarians fit into this process? This is the first book to provide that missing piece, giving librarians practical information and examples of how to contribute to service learning on their campuses. It begins with an overview of librarian involvement in service learning, highlighting connections between service learning and information literacy pedagogy. Case studies focus on specific aspects of service learning that engage information literacy, illustrating ways academic libraries can partner with service learning initiatives. The book concludes with thoughts on assessment and short essays on the future of libraries and service learning.

The Road to Information Literacy
The Road to Information Literacy

Author: Roisin Gwyer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 3110281007

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Information literacy has been identified as a necessary skill for life, work and citizenship - as well as for academic study - for all of us living in today's information society. This international collection brings together practitioner and research papers from all sectors of information work. It includes case studies and good practice guides, including how librarians and information workers can facilitate information literacy from pre-school children to established researchers, digital literacy and information literacy for citizens.

Critical Library Instruction
Critical Library Instruction

Author: Maria T. Accardi

Publisher: Library Juice Press, LLC

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1936117401

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"A collection of articles about various ways of applying critical pedagogy and related educational theories to library instruction"--Provided by publisher.

Teaching Reference Today
Teaching Reference Today

Author: Lisa A. Ellis

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-06-09

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1442263938

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Reference and Information Services, if it may still be referred to by this term, is an evolving outreach service in libraries. This is not only due to Google and the Internet, but also other technological advances afford users online access to a plethora of content, free and proprietary. This evolution has also caused a shift in the theories and practices (especially, core functions and values) of reference and information services as library schools seek greater alignment with practitioners and libraries on the forefront of these changes. As academics and practitioners work together to educate library students on the kinds of changes happening in reference and information services, they are rethinking their curriculum and assignments to incorporate real-world challenges adaptive to user needs. Likewise, libraries may work through their regional library consortia to plan professional development workshops or training sessions to teach new skills and methods of approach required for such changing services. Here’s a tool for library school instructors, library students, professional development instructors, and current librarians poised to change, which specifically addresses the pedagogy of reference and information services in flux. It will help answer questions such as: How may we better educate a new and current generation of reference and information service professionals, given the challenges they will likely encounter? What kinds of assignments could be devised to better promote active learning in a transformative field like reference and information services? What new approaches or theories could be applied to assist library professionals in meeting the informational needs of users?

The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries
The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries

Author: Lesley S. J. Farmer

Publisher: Chandos Publishing

Published: 2007-01-31

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Provides information on how academic libraries provide value-added reference and information services in a digital age. This book provides best practices from a global perspective. It examines the use cycle: consumer, instruction, and producer; and the resource cycle: collection development, instructor, maintenance.

The Blue Book on Information Age Inquiry, Instruction and Literacy
The Blue Book on Information Age Inquiry, Instruction and Literacy

Author: Daniel Callison

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited

Published: 2006-09-30

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13:

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Based on many years of columns from School Library Media Activities Monthly , authors, Daniel Callison and Leslie Preddy present key terms in a working theoretical model that may be used in developing and understanding the power of information inquiry in instruction. This book is both a revision and an update to Key Words, Concepts and Methods for Information Age Instruction (LMS Associates, 2003). New columns from School Library Media Activities Monthly are included and entirely new key words for instruction are introduced. These key terms have immediate value for staff development purposes. They are reproducible and can be used in building year-long study group programmes in schools and libraries or as weekly discussion handouts. An entirely new section on inquiry has been added. An in-depth and invaluable section of resources and web sites has been updated. In addition to the theoretical base, the authors include much practical instructional application for immediate use. The Blue Book on Information Age Inquiry, Instruction and Literacy is the new definitive work on information inquiry and information literacy instruction. The authors have thoughtfully blended theories in education and library science in a book that finally gives us a picture of the huge role of the school library media specialist as both a teacher and a librarian who needs to understand, interpret and instruct students in the skill of inquiry, the basis of all learning. -- Back cover.

Teaching Information Literacy Online
Teaching Information Literacy Online

Author: Thomas P. Mackey

Publisher: ALA Neal-Schuman

Published: 2011-01-31

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13:

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Framed in a practical, real-world context, this invaluable new resource provides a clear set of best practices to help librarians and faculty work tegether to initiate new information literacy assessment efforts or to improve established programs in their own institutions -- from cover.