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Transforming information literacy programs : intersecting frontiers of self, library culture, and campus community

Author: Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson; Courtney Bruch
Publisher: Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, A Division of the American Library Association, 2012.
Series: ACRL publications in librarianship, no. 64.
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The book raises a broad scope of themes including the intellectual, psychological, cultural, definitional and structural issues that academic instruction librarians face in higher education environments. The chapters in this book represent the voices of eight instruction librarians, including two Immersion faculty members. Other perspectives come from a library dean, a library school faculty member, a library  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson; Courtney Bruch
ISBN: 9780838986035 083898603X
OCLC Number: 769763906
Description: vii, 263 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents: Preface and acknowledgment --
Section I : Outlining current boundaries --
Chapter 1 : Surveying terrain, clearing pathways / by Courtney Bruch and Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson --
Chapter 2 : Ethnographic study of information literacy librarians' work experience : a report from two states / by Celene Seymour --
Section II : Frontiers of self --
Chapter 3 : Critical information literacy : definitions and challenges / by James Elmborg --
Chapter 4 : A well-worn path...and beyond : charting feminization in academic instruction librarianship / by Noël Kopriva --
Section III : Fortifying institutional partnerships --
Chapter 5 : Hitching your wagon to institutional goals / by Anne E. Zald and Michelle Millet --
Chapter 6 : Merging critical thinking and information literacy outcomes-making meaning or making strategic partnerships? / Robert Schroeder --
Chapter 7 : Crossing the instructional divide : supporting K-20 information literacy initiatives / Jo Ann Carr --
Section IV : Charting next steps --
Chapter 8 : Settling uncharted territory : documenting & rewarding librarians' teaching role in the academy / by April D. Cunningham and Carrie Donovan --
Chapter 9 : Information literacy reality check / by Nancy H. Seamans.
Series Title: ACRL publications in librarianship, no. 64.
Responsibility: Carroll Wilkinson and Courtney Bruch, editors.

Abstract:

The book raises a broad scope of themes including the intellectual, psychological, cultural, definitional and structural issues that academic instruction librarians face in higher education environments. The chapters in this book represent the voices of eight instruction librarians, including two Immersion faculty members. Other perspectives come from a library dean, a library school faculty member, a library coordinator of school library media certification programs, and a director emerita from a School of Education.
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