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America's Next Top Citation: Teaching Mla Skills To Students, Katelyn Angell
America's Next Top Citation: Teaching Mla Skills To Students, Katelyn Angell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Inspired by game-based learning, audience response systems, and the idea of meeting students where they are, I developed a collaborative, one-hour interactive workshop focused on helping students in English composition classes learn the fundamentals of Modern Language Association (MLA) style.
Introduction, Emily Drabinski, Patrick Keilty
Introduction, Emily Drabinski, Patrick Keilty
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
This article introduces a Library Trends special issue about gender, race, and sexuality in information studies. The papers are drawn from the 2014 Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies colloquium held at the University of Toronto, and represents the first special issue of a scholarly LIS journal dedicated to this theme.
Adapting The Amazing Library Race: Using Problem-Based Learning In Library Orientations, Katelyn Angell, Katherine Boss
Adapting The Amazing Library Race: Using Problem-Based Learning In Library Orientations, Katelyn Angell, Katherine Boss
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
This paper describes a pilot adaptation of the Amazing Library Race (ALR), an academic library orientation designed to introduce new users to library resources and services. A total of 185 students in twelve classes participated in the pilot project, which the authors co-taught. Pedagogically, the ALR combines guided, problem-based learning concepts with key elements of gamification, including competition and reward motivation. It also addresses the learning outcomes of reducing library anxiety and providing general information about collections and services. A review of the literature used in the design of the race is included, as well as a description of the …
Popular Sources, Advertising, And Information Literacy: What Librarians Need To Know, Rachel King
Popular Sources, Advertising, And Information Literacy: What Librarians Need To Know, Rachel King
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Sponsored content, also known as “native advertising,” is a relatively new form of advertising in which corporate sponsors fund articles in periodicals and often exert significant control over the editorial process. This model is a dramatic reversal from past practice; throughout the 20th century, allowing advertisers and sales departments to dictate editorial content was considered unethical by most observers both inside and outside of journalism. Because the information literate student is one who can navigate both library databases and the open web, this article urges academic reference and instruction librarians to gain a deeper understanding of how advertising impacts the …
Valuing Professionalism: Discourse As Professional Practice, Emily Drabinski
Valuing Professionalism: Discourse As Professional Practice, Emily Drabinski
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
In the American Library Association's "Core Values of Librarianship" (2004), Professionalism is listed as one of the Core Values, but its meaning is not settled. Framed alternately as an incomplete achievement of professional traits or a process of identity creation, the professional status of librarianship has been subject to debate since the field began to take its contemporary form in 1876. Understanding Professionalism as a discursive response to an urgent present can enable the field to locate the value of that status outside of the workplace hierarchies that professionalization inevitably produces.
What Standards Do And What They Don't, Emily Drabinski, Meghan Sitar
What Standards Do And What They Don't, Emily Drabinski, Meghan Sitar
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
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Toward The Resistant Reading Of Information: Google, Resistant Spectatorship, And Critical Information Literacy, Eamon Tewell
Toward The Resistant Reading Of Information: Google, Resistant Spectatorship, And Critical Information Literacy, Eamon Tewell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
The theory of resistant spectatorship posits that individuals interacting with media and information may have the agency or power to oppose, reject, or reassemble the message they encounter instead of passively accepting it. This study puts resistant spectatorship in conversation with information literacy and critiques one example of a dominant information discovery system, Google Search, from a “resistant” position. Additionally, this study argues that, within academic libraries, the practice of critical information literacy, a pedagogical approach aligned with the concept of resistant spectatorship, is an ideal mode for encouraging students to become resistant readers of information in its increasingly corporate-mediated …
Authority And Source Evaluation In The Critical Library Classroom, Eamon Tewell, Katelyn Angell
Authority And Source Evaluation In The Critical Library Classroom, Eamon Tewell, Katelyn Angell
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
These lesson plans began with a desire to explore notions of authority in the library classroom at our mid-sized urban university, including how authority is used by teachers to the benefit or detriment of learners and how learners can begin to reclaim their own authority. In creating these lesson plans, we sought to begin with students’ experiences, promote their sense of personal empowerment, and encourage them to consider the complexities of source evaluation.
Access To Physical Media In Academic Libraries: From Policy Review To Action Plan, Rachel King
Access To Physical Media In Academic Libraries: From Policy Review To Action Plan, Rachel King
Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications
Streaming video is becoming the preferred means of viewing video for consumers, but physical formats do continue to offer libraries certain advantages: greater variety of choice for patrons at a lower cost. Many academic libraries have invested heavily in DVD collections, and these videos may be housed in closed stacks that satisfy some stakeholders but that discourage use and do not meet student needs or expectations. This article provides a framework for deciding whether or not to open up a closed collection, and uses the author’s library’s closed-stack collection as a case study.