Academic Librarians’ Attitudes about Civic-Mindedness and Service Learning

Barry, Maureen; Lowe, Laura; Twill, Sarah E.

doi:10.1086/689311

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“…The present study centers on the inclusion of an information literacy component, via a faculty/librarian partnership, and the implications for cognitive outcomes in a family services course. Thus, the findings address a significant gap in the literature concerning the intersection of library science and service-learning in higher education (Barry et al, 2017;Riddle, 2003;Rowland & Knapp, 2015). In addition, this study addresses some methodological limitations of previous studies and adds to a small body of literature, with discrepant findings, by using standardized assessments to examine student outcomes.…”

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confidence: 73%

Critical Thinking in a Service-Learning Course: Impacts of Information Literacy Instruction

Kennedy¹,

Gruber²

2020

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Section: Current Studymentioning

confidence: 73%

Critical Thinking in a Service-Learning Course: Impacts of Information Literacy Instruction

Kennedy¹,

Gruber²

2020

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“…When prompted for their reasons, many (67 percent) said they had never been asked, others (44 percent) cited time constraints, and still others (20 percent) admitted they had never thought about supporting service-learning. 24 Sharing the Kott rubric in the library literature has the potential to raise awareness about service-learning among a wider audience of academic librarians. For those with service-learning experience, Kott's rubric provides a framework for considering and implementing more comprehensive models for supporting service-learning and evaluating such efforts.…”

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“…8 Librarians supporting community engagement and service-learning are "furthering the civic mission of libraries, thereby upholding the values of the profession while fulfilling their obligation to the university community." 9 Whether campus-or library-initiated, community engagement and service-learning efforts need to be evaluated. While there has been significant research into assessment of service-learning, which includes the creation of a rubric to measure the institutionalization of service-learning campus-wide by Andrew Furco, 10 there is no published study on the institutionalization of service-learning within libraries.…”

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Assessing Service-Learning Programs in Academic Libraries: A Rubric in Action

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Barry²,

Gruber³

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Service-learning is an important practice in higher education, allowing institutions to combine essential campus functions of research and learning with meaningful engagement in the community. As service-learning has made its way into institutional strategic plans, libraries have sought to support this work by integrating community engagement into such library functions as collection development, instruction, reference work, and events or displays. This article explores the need to assess the support libraries provide for service-learning, introducing the "Self-Assessment Rubric for Development of Service-Learning Programs in Academic Libraries" by Katherine Kott. The rubric is comprehensive, touching on mission and culture, information access, space, programming, relationships, and organizational leadership, with four tiers for each dimension. Thoughtful completion of the rubric, with modifications based on one's institutional context, allows libraries invested in service-learning pedagogy to identify their strengths, improve their work, and tell their story to stakeholders and decision makers. Adoption across multiple institutions would benefit efforts to tell the story of libraries' impact on service-learning. Reflection is "sometimes described as the hyphen in service-learning; it is the link that ties student experience in the community to academic learning." 1 This paper will hyphenate service-learning except in cases where an original source does not.

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“…En algunos de los textos de la literatura en Bibliotecología se plantea que la biblioteca es una institución enfocada al servicio (Barry, Lowe y Twill, 2017;Buschman, 2017), en la revisión sobre el tema se encuentran esbozos sobre esa característica que, regularmente, se orientan a la descripción de todos o algunos de los servicios que ofrece.…”

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Evolución del concepto producto y servicio en la biblioteca: organización orientada al servicio e intensiva en conocimiento

López

2018

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El presente artículo tiene por objeto el análisis de lo que significa la biblioteca como organización orientada al servicio e intensiva en conocimiento. El supuesto del que se parte es que se ha aseverado que una característica de la biblioteca es ser una institución pionera en la prestación de servicio, y en el contexto de la sociedad de la información y del conocimiento adquiere un papel trascendental. Sin embargo, la respuesta que esta institución presente a la sociedad no solo debe ser externa, también hay que plantear nuevos marcos conceptuales que permitan entender de qué forma la organización interna de la biblioteca se debe reconfigurar, entendida como una organización intensiva en conocimiento. Así que la principal conclusión es que la biblioteca es de tipo rutinaria con alto grado de especialización e integra elementos simbólicos, y para su adecuado funcionamiento necesita tener un alto grado de comunicación entre sus integrantes.

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Academic Librarians’ Attitudes about Civic-Mindedness and Service Learning

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

Critical Thinking in a Service-Learning Course: Impacts of Information Literacy Instruction

Critical Thinking in a Service-Learning Course: Impacts of Information Literacy Instruction

Assessing Service-Learning Programs in Academic Libraries: A Rubric in Action

Evolución del concepto producto y servicio en la biblioteca: organización orientada al servicio e intensiva en conocimiento

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