Transforming Information Literacy Programs: Intersecting Frontiers of Self, Library Culture, and Campus CommunityCarroll Wetzel Wilkinson, Courtney Bruch The book raises a broad scope of themes including the intellectual, psychological, cultural, definitional and structural issues that academic instruction librarians face in higher education environments. The chapters in this book represent the voices of eight instruction librarians, including two Immersion faculty members. Other perspectives come from a library dean, a library school faculty member, a library coordinator of school library media certification programs, and a director emerita from a School of Education. |
Contents
Ethnographic Study of Information Literacy | 45 |
Frontiers of Self | 73 |
Definitions and Challenges byJames elmborg | 97 |
Fortifying | 117 |
Merging Critical Thinking and | 131 |
or Making Strategic Partnerships? by robert schroeder | 153 |
Charting Next Steps | 179 |
in the Academy by april d cunningham and carrie donovan | 221 |
About the Authors | 245 |
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