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Are librarians teachers? Many academic librarians enter teaching roles with limited experience or education in instruction, discovering how to engage students in learning from their own observations, trial-and-error, or professional learning opportunities.
Grappling with this potentially unexpected identity comes amid a time of significant transition for higher education itself. Academic librarians must figure out how to counter mis-, dis-, and malinformation, address shrinking funding for collections while costs increase, and establish meaningful partnerships in diverse, data-driven environments. And writ large, librarianship as a profession continues to grapple with its responsibility to challenge information illiteracy across contexts, its support of systemic systems of oppression under the guise of neutrality, and its value to a society flooded with information.
In three volumes, Instructional Identities and Information Literacy uses transformative learning theory—a way of understanding adult learning and ourselves—to explore the ways librarians can meaningfully advance how we think about our identities, instructional work, and learning as transformation. Three volumes explore:
- Transforming Ourselves
- Transforming Our Programs, Institutions, and Profession
- Transforming Student Learning, Information Seeking, and Experiences
Chapters include transforming a critical, feminist pedagogy with antiracist pedagogy; becoming an advocate for library instruction to promote student success; the intersection of reluctant professionals and the academy; transforming STEM learning and information-seeking experiences; using the Framework to reshape student responses to media narratives; and much more. Instructional Identities and Information Literacy contains many ways to consider the programming, dispositions, behaviors, and attitudes we can use as we continue to advance information literacy instruction and reshape our profession.
Volume 1
Table of Contents
Preface
Amanda Nichols Hess
Part I: Personal Identities and Perspective Transformation
Chapter 1. Centering BIPOC: Transforming a Critical, Feminist Pedagogy with Antiracist Pedagogy
Anna Boutin-Cooper
Chapter 2. From the Classroom to the Stacks: Creating Contexts for Transformative Practice
Abigail Mann
Chapter 3. Uncovering the Intersections of Personal, Professional, and Instructional Identities
Donna Harp Ziegenfuss
Chapter 4. There is Power in Vulnerability: Leading with Self-Acceptance and Embracing Inclusive Pedagogies in Visual Literacy Instruction
Jacqueline Huddle
Part II: Professional Practices and Instructional Identity Development
Chapter 5. Instructional Identity Development Through Narrative Discovery
Addison Lucchi
Chapter 6. Post-Instruction Reflections: An Analysis After Three Years
Elena Azadbakht
Chapter 7. Against All Odds: Becoming an Advocate for Library Instruction to Promote Student Success
Camille Abdeljawad
Chapter 8. Shaping the Science Librarian: Building Teaching Competency and Critical Practice
Megan Bresnahan
Chapter 9. Build on What You Have: Developing Strategic Information Literacy Through Curriculum Mapping
Alicia G. Vaandering
Part III: Collaborative Experiences for Instructional Identity Development
Chapter 10. Compounded Trauma and the Teaching Librarian: Reflections on Trauma-Informed Approaches and the Practice of Radical Empathy
Sheila García Mazari and Maya Hobscheid
Chapter 11. Transforming Together: Developing a Professional Learning Community of Information Literacy Educators
Rachel Dineen, Stephanie Evers, Natasha Floersch, Darren Ilett, and Brianne Markowski
Chapter 12. Transformative Role Playing: Embracing Non-Library Instructional Opportunities to Enrich Professional Identities
John Stawarz and Sebastian Modrow
Bibliography
Author Biographies
Volume 2
Preface
Amanda Nichols Hess
Part I: Program-Level Transformation
Chapter 1. Transforming Our Identities as Learners and Instructors: A Library Instruction Training Program
Matthew Weirick Johnson, Michelle Brasseur, Alexandra Solodkaya, and Hannah Sutherland
Chapter 2. Making the Most of Many Hats: Non-Teaching Responsibilities and their Role in More Informed Instruction
Christine R. Elliott, Sara C. Kern, and Jacob Gordon
Chapter 3. Time for Change: Transforming Library Instruction for Transformative Learning
Lindsay Bush and Adam Mazel
Chapter 4. Intentional, Effective, and Collaborative: Transforming Department Perspectives on the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education
Kristina Clement and Lawrence O. Schmidt
Chapter 5. From Old School to New School: A Case Study on Transforming Internal and External Library Identities
Ruth Castillo
Part II: Institution-Level Transformation
Chapter 6. On the Precipice of Change: How a Small Reference and Instruction Department Is Influencing the Transformation of an Institution
Bekah Dreyer-Rowe and Hannah Cabullo
Chapter 7. Reflecting a Different Self-Image: Professional Development for Faculty in Information Literacy
Kristin E. C. Green
Chapter 8. Integrating Information Literacy into the General Education Curriculum: Developing Self-Actualized and Critical Students through a Process of Transformative Learning
Liz Humrickhouse
Chapter 9. Let’s Work Together: Developing a Shared Instructional Identity
Stephanie Crowe and Tammy Ivins
Chapter 10. From Consumers to Creators: Scaffolding Digital Information Literacy throughout the Undergraduate Curriculum
Emily Metcalf, Lisa Louis, Catherine Rudowsky, and Tara Carlisle
Part III: Profession-Level Transformation
Chapter 11. A Case for the Framework in Community College Libraries: Deconstructing and Challenging Scholarly Discourse and Communication Practices from a Community College Perspective
Erika Montenegro and Cynthia Mari Orozco
Chapter 12. Gender Stereotypes and Information Literacy: A Critical and Feminist Approach to Teaching
Andréa Doyle and Gilda Olinto
Chapter 13. Integrating Identities: The Intersection of Reluctant Professionals and the Academy
Lia Friedman and Torie Quiñonez
Bibliography
Author Biographies
Volume 3
Preface
Amanda Nichols Hess
Part I: Professional Dispositions and Preparatory Work
Chapter 1. Countering Denialism: Librarians as Advocates for Bias-Reducing Information Institutions
Mandi Goodsett
Chapter 2. Using Parts of Reflective Teaching to Create a Space for Learning
Diane Anderson
Chapter 3. From Committee to Classroom: Growing Your Instructional Identity together with Colleagues and through Class Instruction
Holly Jackson
Chapter 4. Transforming Student Learning and Consultation Experiences through a Servant Leadership Lens
Rachel E. Cannady
Part II: Pre-college and First-year Experience
Chapter 5. Developing Virtual Information Literacy Skills during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Partnership Development with the Estacado Early College High School and the TTU College of Education
Amy Dye-Reeves
Chapter 6. Information Literacy as First-Year Experience: A Case Study
Jennifer Joe
Chapter 7. Advancing the Librarian-Writing Classroom Relationship
Derek Malone and Robert Koch
Chapter 8. The Messy Sense-Making World of First-Years
Kimberly Mullins
Part III: Discipline-grounded Learning Experiences
Chapter 9. Confronting the Challenges of Teaching Hard History Through a Role-Playing Assignment
Iris Finkel
Chapter 10. The Enduring Value of Tertiary Sources in Information Literacy Instruction in the Humanities
Claudia Peterson
Chapter 11. Finding the Win: Transforming STEM Learning and Information-Seeking Experiences
Kate Mercer and Kari D. Weaver
Chapter 12. Just-in-Time Learning in a Tumultuous Time: An Asynchronous, Virtual Lab Course Model using the Framework to Reshape Student Responses to Media Narratives
Jonathan Harwell and Deborah Prosser
Chapter 13. Purple Bricks of Library Instruction: An Academic Success Program and Libraries Collaborate to Integrate Active-Learning into Library Pedagogy
Joshua Salmans and James Durham
Bibliography
Author Biographies