Academic librarian and English composition instructor collaboration

Abstract

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to provide an annotated bibliography of resources on the topic of academic librarians collaborating with English composition faculty and instructors for the implementation of information literacy instruction into English composition courses. Design/methodology/approach -In order to find relevant resources for the bibliography, the author consulted a library catalog, the WorldCat database, to find books not available in the local library, and databases to find journal articles. Databases consulted include a general database, an information science-related database, and a library and information science-related database. Findings -Whenever librarians collaborate with English composition faculty for information literacy, students' information literacy skills are improved. Research limitations/implications -This bibliography is limited to the time period 1998-2007. Articles and books published before 1998 are not included. Also, popular magazines articles and newspapers articles are not included. Practical implications -This paper will be helpful to academic librarians who want to collaborate with English composition faculty members for information literacy instruction. Several examples of this type of collaboration are provided. Originality/value -This paper is a useful contribution on this topic to the library literature. Particularly, it contributes to the library literature pertaining to information literacy. Also, a database search indicates that this paper is the first annotated bibliography on its topic.

Blending In: Collaborating with an Instructor in an Online Course

“…librarians differ along institutional and interpersonal lines. 24 Although there is often resistance from faculty, 25 the consensus among librarians is that building bridges and improving communication with faculty is worth pursuing. 26 In this atmosphere of diverse challenges and responses to delivering information literacy, the trends of blended and embedded librarianship offer focused, empowering roles for librarians.…”

The role of faculty autonomy in a course-integrated information literacy program

“…For their part, faculty members are often dissatisfied with students' information literacy abilities, though they may not always agree with librarians about the best ways to improve those abilities (Bury, 2011;DaCosta, 2010;Dubicki, 2013;Saunders, 2012). Although some librarians have found the attitudes and values of teaching faculty "barriers" to effective information literacy program implementation (Saunders, 2009), a wealth of case studies have reported successful collaborations between librarians and faculty to improve student information literacy learning (Bluemle et al, 2013;Johnson et al, 2003;Ostrow, 2010;Winterman et al, 2011; for a thorough review of faculty-librarian collaborations for composition courses between 1998-2007, see Mounce, 2009).…”

Assessing organically: turning an assignment into an assessment

“…For example, Johnson et al's (2008) annual summary of library instruction and information literacy, found an “explosion” in the overall information literacy literature, and examples of collaborative case studies were approximately double those in her 2007 review. A thorough review of this literature is beyond the scope of this article, but several notable compilations of case studies include Cook and Cooper (2006), Jacobson and Mackey (2007), Miller et al 's (2010) review of information literacy collaborations between librarians and nursing faculty, Mounce's (2009) bibliography on partnerships between English faculty and librarians, Rockman (2004), and Sterling‐Brasley's (2008) collection organized according to Curzon's (2004) nine models of effective collaboration. As Stevens (2007) noted, most of these case studies appear in the library science literature.…”