Reference Services Review: Volume 42 Issue 2

Teaching metaliteracy: a new paradigm in action

The purpose of this paper is to offer a model of information literacy instruction that utilizes social media to teach metaliteracy as the foundation for information literacy today…

Stages of instruction: theatre, pedagogy and information literacy

– The purpose of this article is to offer a new perspective on library instruction by examining its relationship with various aspects of theatrical performance.

Authentic engagement: Assessing the effects of authenticity on student engagement and information literacy in academic library instruction

The purpose of this case study is to measure the impact of authenticity – the operation of one’s true self in one’s daily activities – on student engagement and learning in the…

Overcoming the barriers to information literacy programs: CALM Lab for English majors at Dickinson College

– The purpose of this paper is to describe the process by which an information literacy laboratory became a graduation requirement of the English major at Dickinson College.

Evidence-based instruction integration: a syllabus analysis project

The purpose of this research paper was to establish a replicable method of gathering and analyzing data using course syllabi to enable instruction librarians to strategically…

Crowdsourcing the curriculum: Information literacy instruction in first-year writing

The purpose of this article is to describe the rationale, process and results of an integrated curricular intervention for information literacy instruction in a first-year writing…

Psychology guides and information literacy: The current landscape and a proposed framework for standards-based development

This study aims to provide an understanding of current practice and informs the further development of guides as key instructional tools. To assess the existing landscape of…

Peer reference revisited: Evolution of a peer-reference model

The purpose of this article is to revisit Kimbel Library’s peer reference program three years later and provide further information on the challenges and benefits of growing a…

Using transaction log analysis to assess student search behavior in the library instruction classroom

The purpose of this study is to determine how undergraduate students search in the context of a library instruction session. The results of an assessment of transaction logs are…

Undergraduate research support with optical character recognition apps

The purpose of this paper is to report results of a formative usability study that investigated first-year student use of an optical character recognition (OCR) mobile application…

The information milieu of remote sensing: an overview

This paper aims to provide an overview of issues relevant to scientific information literacy within the context of the remote sensing, a cross-cutting scientific discipline. The…

An assessment of academic librarians’ instructional performance in Sri Lanka: A survey

The purpose of this research paper is to look at the overall instructional performance of academic librarians in Sri Lanka and shed light on the challenges and potential problems…

Acknowledgement of ad hoc reviewers

“Putting standards, guidelines and theory into practice”