Current Issue: April 2019
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Mailloux and Matthies
Going to the dogs
One college library’s program to encourage reading literacy
When the Casper College Library was approached by the Office of Student Financial Assistance to develop a reading literacy program, we jumped ...
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Shonn M. Haren
Reframing from the ground up
Redesigning a credit-bearing information literacy course using the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
LIB 1500 is a three-credit information literacy course offered by the University Library at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly-Pomona), which is taught by faculty librarians. The course was developed during the ...
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Costin and Morgan
Moving from the sidelines to the playing field
Developing a relationship with student athletics
The Vanderbilt University Library, in collaboration with the university’s Department of Athletics Stratton Foster Academic Support Center, established an initiative to better acquaint the counselors at the center with ...
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Dimmit, Maxwell, and Nesvig
Librarians as critical friends
Developing a sustainable peer observation process
Librarians at the University of Washington- Bothell and Cascadia College Campus Library engage in information literacy instruction offered in targeted courses across the curriculum. A focus of these targeted courses is multiple sections of 100-level college introduction and research writing. Most classroom instruction happens by a single librarian in front of a group of students and a faculty member. With approximately 15 librarians engaging in an average of 10 to 12 instruction workshops each academic quarter, our instruction program is robust and dynamic but lacks a built-in mechanism for observation and feedback. ...