Reference Services Review: Volume 43 Issue 1

Sustainable decision making for emerging educational technologies in libraries

Richard Hayman, Erika E Smith

The purpose of this article is to discuss approaches to sustainable decision-making for integrating emerging educational technologies in library instruction while supporting…

Teaching “format as a process” in an era of Web-scale discovery

Kevin Patrick Seeber

This paper aims to present academic librarians with a framework for teaching and assessing information literacy in response to advancements in online discovery. Advancements in…

Badge it!: A collaborative learning outcomes based approach to integrating information literacy badges within disciplinary curriculum

Emily Ford, Betty Izumi, Jost Lottes, Dawn Richardson

The purpose of this article is to discuss the collaborative learning outcomes-based approach taken by a librarian and disciplinary faculty members to improve information literacy…

Learning information literacy through drawing

David James Brier, Vickery Kaye Lebbin

– The purpose of this paper is to explore drawing as an instructional method to teach information literacy.

Repurposing Zotero for sustainable assessment and scalable modified embedding

Rebecca Zuege Kuglitsch

This paper aims to describe a new application of Zotero, a citation management system, for embedded librarianship and assessment. It explores student reception of this approach…

One-shot Wikipedia: an edit-sprint toward information literacy

John Thomas Oliver

The purpose of this paper is to investigate which learning targets can be achieved by using Wikipedia as a tool for teaching information literacy within the context of brief…

Flashlight: using Bizup’s BEAM to illuminate the rhetoric of research

Kate Rubick

This paper aims to demonstrate how a librarian at a liberal arts college partnered with a professor of rhetoric and media studies to teach students methods to classify sources…

Leveraging adult learning theory with online tutorials

Rebecca Halpern, Chimene Tucker

– The purpose of this paper is to apply adult-centered learning theories to online information literacy tutorials.

Integrating the thematic approach into information literacy courses

Elizabeth Price, Rebecca Richardson

The purpose of this paper is to review selected publications in library-related literature and discuss the thematic approach to course design in colleges and universities and how…

Piloting a blended model for sustainable IL programming

Jody Nelson, Joan Morrison, Lindsey Whitson

This paper aims to describe the MacEwan University Library’s successful pilot of a fully blended information literacy (IL) instruction program for first-year English courses…

Library Instruction West 2014: Open, Sustainable Instruction

Joan Petit, Sara Thompson

Still relevant after all these years

Eleanor Mitchell, Sarah Barbara Watstein