Sunday, January 14, 2007

Recent articles, mostly academic libraries

Stevens, C. and Campbell, P. (2006) "Collaborating to connect global citizenship, information literacy, and lifelong learning in the global studies classroom." Reference Services Review, 34 (4), 536 - 556.
"The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the concepts of lifelong learning, information literacy, and global citizenship, making explicit connections among them via theories of social capital. It then presents a model of librarian-faculty collaboration that relies upon information literacy as a framework for fostering lifelong learning and global citizenship." (I thought this paper was particularly interesting, and it describes the tasks and assignments in some detail.)

Boyd, J. et al (2006) "The One-Box Challenge: Providing a Federated Search That Benefits the Research Process." Serials review, 32 (4), 247-254.
Five US librarians briefly describe comment on their institution's implementation of federated searching, including some observations about the relationship with information literacy.

Harrison, J. and Rourke, L. (2006) "The benefits of buy-in: integrating information literacy into each year of an academic program." Reference Services Review, 34 (4), 599 - 606.
"The purpose of this paper is to describe the integration of information literacy into each year of a Bachelor of Arts and Science (BAS) program at the University of Guelph, Ontario, and to explain the role of librarian mentors in this program. "

Jackson, L. and Hansen, J (2006) "Creating collaborative partnerships: building the framework." Reference Services Review, 34 (4 ), 575 - 588.
"The paper seeks to explore the nature of a collaborative relationship among school and academic librarians in order to enhance the information literacy skills of students as they matriculate to college ... [it] discusses collaboration among school librarians in Madison County, Illinois and one academic library."

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