Reference Services Review: Volume 51 Issue 1

Editorial: Library learning for the future: sustaining, reinventing and revitalizing how, when and where librarians support learning

Elizabeth M. Johns, Sarah Barbara Watstein

Teaching undergraduates to develop concise and compelling scholarly communication through storytelling

Tiffanie Ford–Baxter, Kendall Faulkner

This article reviews current librarian instructional approaches for poster and oral presentation assignments and showcases a new approach using the Pixar Pitch outline.

Tracking student learning outcome engagement at the reference desk to facilitate assessment

Michael D. Current

This paper presents a novel approach to associating patron interactions with specific student learning objectives (SLOs) incorporated into reference transactions in an environment…

“We turn the lens … on ourselves:” assessing digital primary source library instruction through the lens of scholarship of teaching and learning

Peggy Keeran

The tenets of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) allow librarians to assess their teaching effectiveness through an evaluation of student learning. For the author, the…

The reader's way: student process guiding library practice

Annie R. Armstrong, Glenda M. Insua, Catherine Lantz

This paper explores the academic reading behaviors of first-year students in an attempt to understand their experiences and develop potential reading interventions to support…

Libraries advancing health equity:a literature review

Amanda J. Wilson, Catherine Staley, Brittney Davis, Blair Anton

Progress toward health equity is necessary to reduce health disparities, and health literacy is key to achieving this goal. Because libraries provide access to knowledge and…