Reference Services Review: Volume 38 Issue 4

Blurring borders, visualizing connections: Aligning information and visual literacy learning outcomes

This paper seeks to offer a rationale and practical suggestions for the integration of visual literacy instruction and information literacy instruction practice and theory.

Assessing organically: turning an assignment into an assessment

This paper aims to report on how a close collaboration between librarian and instructor made it possible for an existing course assignment to organically evolve into an…

The borderland of value: examining student attitudes towards secondary research

The purpose of this study is to investigate traditional freshmen value attitudes towards the secondary research process.

Undergraduates' academic information and library behaviors: preliminary results

This paper proposes to present preliminary findings from a larger study which examine and describe five issues of undergraduates' academic information and library behaviors: where…

Rethinking the library for the international student community

The purpose of this paper is to report on a study conducted about international students’ use of academic libraries at three campuses: a medium‐sized private institution, a state…

Innovation: the language of learning libraries

The purpose of this paper is to describe an experimental staff training program called “Innovation Boot Camp” in which participants engaged in playful activities designed…

Shifting paradigms: teaching, learning and Web 2.0

This paper seeks to re‐conceptualize Web 2.0 tools within the intellectual and theoretical frameworks currently driving changes in academic learning communities and to explore the…

Peer‐ing into the information commons: Making the most of student assistants in new library spaces

This instructive study intends to demonstrate the value of investing time and training in the development of student workers who are able to perform higher order tasks like…

Turning the tables: a faculty‐centered approach to integrating information literacy

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze Eastern Washington University's Student Research Skills initiative, a three‐year ongoing project, in which librarians work…

A school mascot walks into the library: tapping school spirit for library instruction videos

This paper aims to describe the University of Idaho Library's efforts to develop instructional videos starring the school mascot, Joe Vandal, and integrate these videos across the…

Library instruction and information literacy 2009

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

2010 Awards for Excellence

LOEX-of-the-West 2010: Crossing Borders to Calgary

Destination Calgary, Destination RSR