Reference Services Review: Volume 28 Issue 4

Creativity research: implications for teaching, learning and thinking

Mary Jane Petrowski

Creativity has become a hot topic in academic circles, although it has only recently gained credibility as a legitimate subject for research. This paper highlights findings from a…

Elicit, engage, experience, explore: discovery learning in library instruction

Tracy Bicknell‐Holmes, Paul Seth Hoffman

Discovery learning is a teaching strategy instructors can utilize to increase the engagement of and content relevance to students involved in library instruction. There are five…

Creativity in assessment of library instruction

Janet L. Williams

The basic concepts of testing and item development, and the application of alternative assessments (non‐multiple choice) to information literacy content for library instruction…

What and when do they know? Web‐based assessment

Sue Samson

In tandem, tiered instruction and assessment offer the opportunity to analyze the outcomes of specific levels of information literacy. Tiered library instruction establishes a…

What have we done? TILT’s impact on our instruction program

Clara S. Fowler, Elizabeth A. Dupuis

In response to the large number of students needing library instruction, the Digital Information Literacy Office at the University of Texas at Austin created TILT (Texas…

Using courseware to deliver library instruction via the Web: four examples

Nancy K. Getty, Barbara Burd, Sarah K. Burns, Linda Piele

Librarians at four academic institutions present their experiences using four courseware products (Web Course in a Box, Blackboard, eCollege.com, and WebCT) to teach information…

When technology transforms research methodology: the role of librarians in reforming the curriculum

Zhijia Shen, Keith Gresham

An ever‐growing body of electronic information resources is gradually making traditional research methodologies obsolete and transforming the ways in which students learn how…

Did you hear the one about the Boolean operators? Incorporating comedy into library instruction

Kristin Trefts, Sarah Blakeslee

Most instruction librarians know that library instruction can often be boring to teach, and boring for students, but we also know the value of library instruction and its…

Library instruction and information literacy – 1999

Hannelore B. Rader

Since 1973, Reference Services Review has published an annual annotated bibliography of materials focused on library instruction and, most recently, information literacy…