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Intersections, Frames, and Lines | Peer to Peer Review
So many ideas can be sparked by coincidental juxtaposition. In the past few weeks, I have been thinking about the intersections between scholarly communications and information literacy. This was...
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Engage the Electorate: Ramping up for 2016 | Editorial
The 2016 presidential primary activity and election may provide libraries with an unmatched opportunity to show their stuff. As candidates officially jump into the race, voters are already inundated by...
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Adult Learners in the Library–Are they Being Served? | Peer to Peer Review
Makiba Foster, left, and Kris Helbling, right Like many academic librarians, after completing the marathon of the traditional school year, we often use the summer semester to reflect, revise, and plan...
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The Amazing Library Titles Race | Programs That Pop
“The Ass Is Dead! LONG LIVE the Ass!” Do I have your attention? Good. That is the point of a library instruction workshop game that requires students to unscramble a book title, then search the catalog...
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Credentialing to Establish the Library’s Presence | From the Bell Tower
When it comes to providing employers with information about a student’s skill set, the college transcript does a poor job, yet it’s the current standard. New approaches to credentialing could change...
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The Livelong Day | Office Hours
We spend a lot of time talking about various forms of literacy. Various approaches have risen up and faded quickly—transliteracy, metaliteracy, etc.—but the idea remains: How can everyday folks...
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Markers of Quality: The Role of Librarians in Everyday Life Information...
This all started when my teenage son reported that Adam Sandler has Ebola. He saw it trending on Facebook. I sighed inwardly and asked if he had looked at the source of the information. Being the son...
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The First Year | College Readiness
Photo credit: Purestock/Thinkstock Heather Moorefield-Lang has witnessed the face of freshman terror when the first-year students walk into the college library at the University of South Carolina in...
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A Unified Voice: Confronting an Assault on Information | Editorial
I wrote recently that the rate of media illiteracy is the information crisis of our time (“Faked Out”), but now that very real issue has nonetheless been trumped by a deliberate assault on the flow of...
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First Impressions: LJ’s First Year Experience Survey
First-year college and university students enter with widely varying levels of information literacy, particularly in light of the funding crisis that has left so many K–12 public schools without...
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