Information Literacy | Library Instruction
Moving beyond academic settings to encompass libraries of all kinds, this book showcases critical information literacy topics, programs, and lessons with an emphasis on practical application.
This book emphasizes the importance of attention and focus to the process of visual literacy, demonstrating how this approach supports ACRL’s Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and the Framework for Visual Literacy in Higher Education.
"Quaratiello’s clear explanations of searching and evaluating should serve students for years to come."
— Library Journal
Higher education is about transformation: research shows that the most well-prepared graduates are those who have experienced changes in how they think about and experience the world around them. Combined with flexible information-seeking and evaluation skills, learning ways to break information bubbles is essential for dealing with today's challenging, complex information environment. Jack Mezirow’s transformative learning theory, which frames how adults think about and interact with the world around them, offers a way forward. Hess invites academic librarians to consider critical librarianship, pedagogy, and information literacy instruction in tandem with transformative learning theory, demonstrating tangible ways to integrate these concepts into their practice. Readers will discover
- an overview of critical library pedagogy and transformative learning theory, showing how reflection and action lie at the core of both ideas;
- in-depth exploration of the ten phases of the perspective transformation process and how they relate to key facets of critical librarianship, critical pedagogy, and critical information literacy;
- important theoretical and research viewpoints that elucidate perspective transformation;
- real-world scenarios modelling how one’s own praxis can support learners; and
- a myriad of ideas, reflection questions, opportunities for action, and additional resources to spur readers to look beyond their own information bubbles and facilitate environments where learners can do the same.
"A user-friendly work that provides librarians with a quick tool to better understand learning theories in relation to librarianship. Excellent for both seasoned and new librarians, this resource is highly recommended for all types of libraries."
— Library Journal (starred review)
This book aims to clarify and exemplify stages, processes, and strategies for academic research and writing to facilitate individualized and decolonizing applications to institutional and/or disciplinary expectations.
"Not only an invaluable collection of leading theorists in the field of information literacy, this title includes unique and provocative insights into how people engage with and make sense of information environments using sound theoretical bases.”
— Eamon Tewell, Head of Research Support and Outreach, Columbia University Libraries
This collection examines the multifaceted role of workplace information literacy in organizational operations and its role in the digitalization process, taking into account the role and perspectives of employer and employee.
This book offers a compelling vision for libraries to claim their central role as trusted stewards of knowledge and architects of a responsible and equitable AI-driven world.
"This should be on the shelf of every research administrator, research executive, university faculty of graduate level programs, library director, and RDM training staff members. This reader highly recommends this title. "
— Journal of Hospital Librarianship
"From someone beginning in the profession, to someone who may have been teaching for decades, there are takeaways for us all."
— Journal of New Librarianship
"This book would make good additional reading as part of any information literacy pedagogy class and would help spur class conversations about the nature of information literacy instruction that is sorely needed in LIS curricula today."
— Journal of Education for Library and Information Science
"Creative, inspiring, and timely ... Recommended for academic library collections where media literacy is recognized as a priority."
— Journal of Web Librarianship
"An interesting and insightful work."
— Choice
Gain strategies and practical tools for introducing undergraduates to scholarly research topics such as research ethics, the role of research in higher education, quantitative and qualitative methods, and research in the areas of STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
This book is essential for researchers and students alike who are aspiring to or currently work in academic libraries and the teams who support them.
"Provides a concise examination of the most recent iteration of the fake news phenomenon with a discussion of how the use of knowledge of information behavior and critical evaluation skills can combat the consequences of fake news."
— SJSU Student Research Journal
"This book is a valuable addition to an academic library collection for both library faculty and instructors of disciplines in which sourced writing and creative knowledge expression are important."
— Public Services Quarterly
“A concise and useful handbook for the creation of successful information literacy instruction sessions.”
— College & Research Libraries