Reference Services Review: Volume 47 Issue 4

Editorial

Sarah Barbara Watstein, Tammy Ivins

Library instruction and information literacy 2018

Tessa Withorn, Carolyn Caffrey, Joanna Messer Kimmitt, Jillian Eslami, Anthony Andora, Maggie Clarke, Nicole Patch, Karla Salinas Guajardo, Syann Lunsford

This paper aims to present recently published resources on library instruction and information literacy providing an introductory overview and a selected annotated bibliography of…

Synthesizing a digital badge for chemistry undergraduates

Melissa Behney

This paper aims to describe the development of a digital badge for a discipline-specific course in chemistry that was undertaken as part of an overall course redesign. Learning…

Teaching the information literacy Framework: Creating choose-your-own-adventure flip-books

Irene Korber, Jodi Shepherd

The purpose of this paper is to outline the concept and creation of choose-your-own-adventure flip-books for use in teaching information literacy in higher education.

Online active-learning: information literacy instruction for graduate students

Sarah Parramore

The purpose of this paper is to describe the challenges of teaching information literacy online to graduate students and evaluate software that supports using active learning…

Working toward a culture of instructional assessment

Meghan Wanucha Smith

This paper describes the development of a culture of assessment in an academic library’s information literacy program offered through its Research and Instructional Services…

Charting a path forward in student success

Lynn Deeken, Amy Vecchione, Allison Carr, Shelby Hallman, Lara Herzellah, Natalia Lopez, Rob Rucker, Michael Alfieri, Deborah Tenofsky, Anne Moore, Nancy Fawley, John Glover, Bettina Peacemaker, Amy Pajewski

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

Developing and assessing a graduate student reference service

Robin Canuel, Sandy Hervieux, Veronica Bergsten, Amélie Brault, Rachelle Burke

The purpose of this paper is to formally assess the training program received by information studies graduate students and the reference services they provided at a…

Cultural humility in libraries

David A. Hurley, Sarah R. Kostelecky, Lori Townsend

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the idea of cultural humility, distinguish it from cultural competence and explore how it fits within librarianship.

Breaking out to break through: re-imagining first-year orientations

Claire Calderwood Veach

This paper aims to outline the conceptualization, design and implementation process of an escape room-style game for first-year student orientation sessions hosted by a combined…

What citation patterns reveal about reading research and practice in academic libraries

Keren Dali, Lindsay McNiff

At the turn of the twenty-first century, academic libraries revived their tradition of working with readers, which resulted in a surge of publications in this area. However, the…

Listening and learning: myths and misperceptions about postgraduate students and library support

Shiobhan Alice Smith, Antje Lubcke, Dean Alexander, Kate Thompson, Christy Ballard, Fiona Glasgow

The University of Otago Library conducted a review of its postgraduate support program in 2018. The purpose of this paper is to report on the findings of a questionnaire and…