Reference Services Review: Volume 47 Issue 3

Editorial

Sarah Barbara Watstein, Tammy Ivins

Navigating student success: learning from the higher education landscape

Lynn Deeken, Meggan Press, Angie Thorpe Pusnik, Laura Birkenhauer, Nate Floyd, Lindsay Miller, Andrew Revelle, Jaclyn Spraetz, Christina Riehman-Murphy, Christie Flynn, Caitlin Gerrity, Stephanie J. Graves, Sarah LeMire, Anne Pemberton, Vonzell DeRico Yeager, Magen Bednar

This paper aims to demonstrate the variety of ways institutions and their libraries approach student success both conceptionally and operationally.

Information literacy in Utah: a state of the state

Anne R. Diekema, Caitlin Gerrity, Paula Mitchell

Ideally, information literacy instruction is sequenced throughout students’ academic careers, reinforcing and building on earlier instruction. The purpose of this exploratory…

Editorial

Laureen P. Cantwell

Cross-institutional collaboration for transfer student success

Kaela Casey, Linda Kennedy, Janet Pinkley, Laura Worden

Each of Ventura County’s four public institutions of higher education list information literacy (IL) as either an institutional outcome or general education outcome for their…

Reiterative reflection in the library instruction classroom

Sara Maurice Whitver, Karleigh Knorr Riesen

This study aims to explore the application of reflective pedagogy within a course-embedded library instruction session (as opposed to a semester-long credit bearing course) as a…

Socially responsible pedagogy: critical information literacy and art

Nicole A. Beatty, Ernesto Hernandez

The purpose of this paper is to examine the theoretical concept of socially responsible pedagogy because it applies to teaching information literacy.

Strategic source evaluation: addressing the container conundrum

Alyssa Russo, Amy Jankowski, Stephanie Beene, Lori Townsend

This paper argues that information containers provide valuable context clues that can help students make choices about how to engage with information content. The authors present…

The power of peers: approaches from writing and libraries

Bronwen K. Maxson, Michelle E. Neely, Lindsay M. Roberts, Sean M. Stone, M. Sara Lowe, Katharine V. Macy, Willie Miller

The purpose of this paper is to discuss different strategies for implementing peer teaching as well as different roles for peer teachers in both academic libraries and…

Overcoming imposter syndrome: the adventures of two new instruction librarians

Jessica Martinez, Meredith Forrey

New librarians rarely feel fully prepared for academic library instruction. This could be attributed to many factors in both Master of Library and Information Science programs and…

On the same page: collaborative research assignment design with graduate teaching assistants

Maggie Murphy

This paper aims to explore how collaborative research assignment design consultations between instruction librarians and new graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) have the potential…