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Maya Hobscheid; Anna White; Kristin Kerbavaz – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
Librarians at a Midwestern, midsized state university studied the application of their flexible programmatic information literacy rubric to one-shot first-year writing library instruction. Ten librarians taught 23 sessions of first-year writing on information access skills and assessed each class using the flexible programmatic information…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Librarians, Library Instruction, Library Skills
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Annis Lee Adams; Stephanie Alexander; Sharon Radcliff – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This study was designed to inform the renaming of a credit-bearing information literacy course. Researchers surveyed librarians to gather existing information literacy course titles. They also surveyed and held focus groups with students to learn what students consider when choosing electives, to understand how well the researchers' current…
Descriptors: College Students, Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Library Skills
Brady Lund; Ting Wang; Michael Widdersheim; Brendan Fay – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2023
This study compares the perspectives of academic library administrators, library school educators, and academic librarians with respect to academic instructional librarianship. A nine-item questionnaire was administered to 14 educators, 10 library administrators, and 13 instructional librarians. The survey included items related to important…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Education, Academic Libraries, Library Schools
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Almeida, Nora; Tidal, Junior – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This article describes a wayfinding study conducted in an urban, academic library to better understand the experiences of multilingual student populations. The study, which incorporated traditional user experience methods and video ethnography, exposed communication obstacles and spatial challenges encountered by students of English for speakers…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Information Seeking, Library Skills