Reference Services Review: Volume 36 Issue 4

LOEX‐of‐the‐West 2008: hitting the jackpot in Las Vegas

The purpose of this guest editorial is to provide an overview of the LOEX‐of‐the‐West 2008 Conference.

LOEX‐of‐the‐West 2008: a first time attendee finds Greek sunshine in Las Vegas

The purpose of this conference report is to provide a perspective of the LOEX‐of‐the‐West (LOTW) biennial conference from a first time attendee.

A portal to student learning: what instruction librarians can learn from video game design

The paper aims to present a methodology for analyzing the pedagogical content of video games and to present the findings of one such analysis.

Building an information literacy first‐person shooter

The purpose of this paper is to determine the feasibility of modifying a commercial off‐the‐shelf video game that incorporates elements of information literacy.

This is jeopardy! An exciting approach to learning in library instruction

This paper aims to focus on the usefulness of a library version of the popular television show Jeopardy as an active learning technique for library instruction.

Innovation – an LO library: reuse of learning objects

The purpose of the paper is to share the types, uses, and students' recommendations about reusable digital learning objects at Northwest Missouri State University, which can be…

The librarian's role in motivating language learners: tales from an Eastern Washington college town

This paper aims to describe the benefits of contact between the language librarian and a first year language class at Washington State University, for the purpose of promoting…

Values: the invisible “ante” in information literacy learning?

The ACRL Competency Standards related to learners' values and value systems has not been interrogated in relation to information literacy theory or practice. This paper aims to…

Investigating the efficacy of embedment: experiments in information literacy integration

This paper seeks to present the findings of a series of experiments in embedding a librarian at a variety of levels into the undergraduate classroom. This study aimed to determine…

Library instruction and information literacy 2007

The purpose of this paper is to provide a selected bibliography of recent resources on library instruction and information literacy.

Reflections on how we're doing

Note from the publisher

Note from the publisher