Just-in-Time or Just-in-Case? Time, Learning Analytics, and the Academic Library

Nicholson, Karen; Pagowsky, Nicole; Seale, Maura

doi:10.1353/lib.2019.0030

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“…Karen Nicholson, Nicole Pagowsky, and Maura Seale articulate, "Anxiety and fear of the future may prevail if academic libraries are beholden to campus efforts to use student data to demonstrate value, pushing librarians toward a pedagogy centered in the development of measurable skills." 12…”

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The Contested One-Shot: Deconstructing Power Structures to Imagine New Futures

Pagowsky

2021

CRL

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For so long the one-shot has been the dominating force of how we engage in library instruction. There is a lot of meaning and debate saturated in this faux-innocuous activity, yet there is not always consensus as to how we define a one-shot. Is it doing a library "spiel" to demo a database, present the library website, or give a tour? Is it visiting a class once without an explicit connection to an assignment? Is it even embedding a learning object in a class without assessment feedback or other interaction? To have a central, salient definition of the one-shot for the purpose of this editorial, I view it as a standalone session, superficially (or not at all) connected to course content, that is tacked onto a class. Within a curriculum, the one-shot has no memory of where information literacy has been and no vision of where it is going. It is ephemeral within cycles of ineffectiveness. I am writing this guest editorial to talk this through and share my thoughts, and then invite you to share yours in a special issue of C&RL on the contested one-shot (see the Call for Proposals at the end). We do not need consensus but sharing different perspectives and exploring what "effective" teaching means is important to support our instruction programs. This guest editorial will discuss one-shots in the context of effective teaching practices; assessment; and power structures related to care-work and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). The hope is to expand our pedagogical imagination through questioning what appear to be common-sense practices in order to create better systems and structures. 1 Effective TeachingWhat do we actually mean when we say "effective?" This is difficult to identify and measure. Learning is messy and doing more one-shots does not equate with more effective teaching or guarantee student learning. I started to think about what was problematic with the one-shot in my first library job at a community college where I would teach a large amount of these singular sessions each semester. The issue is less about them being "one" and more about them often being tacked on to the curriculum, regardless of how many there were. This idea has persisted in my mind and is expressed well in a 2006 article I assign to iSchool students in my LIS course. Dane Ward explains that, "Students do not achieve information literacy by attending more library sessions. Rather, students learn relevant information skills when they are systematically

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Section: Assessment Measurement and Outputsmentioning

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The Contested One-Shot: Deconstructing Power Structures to Imagine New Futures

Pagowsky

2021

CRL

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“…After the program concluded in 2015, ACRL turned its curriculum into a "roadshow" that academic libraries could pay to host for their staff (ACRL n.d.). In 2017, ACRL published Academic Library Impact: Improving Practice and Essential Areas to Research, which heavily emphasizes the use of learning analytics to demonstrate value (Connaway, Harvey, Kitzie, and Mikitish, 2017;Becker and Goek 2020;Nicholson, Pagowsky, and Seale 2019). ACRL next decided to fund grants to research projects based on Academic Library Impact beginning in 2018 (Becker and Goek 2020).…”

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The Coin of Love and Virtue: Academic Libraries and Value in a Global Pandemic

Seale

Mirza

2020

Can. J. Acad. Lib.

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In September 2010, the Association of College and Research Libraries released The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report. The spread of the novel coronavirus and the resulting global pandemic has raised questions about the concept of value in academic libraries. How is value attributed? How does value function? What does it mean to demonstrate or prove our value? We begin with an overview and analysis of ACRL’s Value of Academic Libraries Initiative. We then provide a description and timeline of the spread of COVID-19 and the reaction of both institutions of higher education, academic libraries, professional library organizations, and individual librarians. The pandemic has created a new category of workers - “essential workers” - who provide vital services, perform maintenance work, and labor to keep infrastructures intact. The role of carework and careworkers in the pandemic helps illuminate the situation of academic librarians within regimes of neoliberal austerity. Ultimately we argue that although the discourse of library value seeks to prove library value rationally and empirically, through a lot of quantitative data, capitalism, the economy, and value are fundamentally irrational. Academic library value must be claimed politically; misrecognizing the nature of the problem and relying on commonsense understandings of value and the economic, which is what the discourse of library value has done for the past decade, goes nowhere.

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“…To realize the power of critical performativity for making our privacy practices more ethical and protective of users, our performatives must acknowledge the true realities of our environment. Library use in a digital environment is far more trackable, and institutions are hungry for ever more data to prove their value (ARL 2019;Nicholson, Pagowsky, and Seale 2019). In response, a movement of library organizations, librarians, and scholars have begun shifting the discourse around user privacy to acknowledge complexity and change (Jones andSalo 2018, Young et al 2019) At this time, statements of library privacy principles that are explicit about current privacy challenges while nonetheless stating aspirational intent can serve as authentic and successful discursive mechanisms toward ethical progress on privacy in libraries (NISO 2015, Stanford Libraries 2020).…”

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Critical Library Performativity: Toward Progressive Change in Academic Library Management and Organizations

Leebaw

2020

Can. J. Acad. Lib.

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Can library managers be #critlib? Do articles and conversations about critical theory really lead to progressive changes in library organizations and management? Critical management studies (CMS), a subfield of management studies, calls for denaturalization of taken-for-granted management practices, reflexivity in methods, and anti-performative goals. However, worried that CMS is too idealistic and ineffective, some of its adherents have proposed a theoretical construct they call “critical performativity” (CP). CP aims to bridge critical theory and authentic engagement with practicing managers. This article introduces and summarizes CP scholarship, and then considers the lessons CP has for critical library scholars, workers, and managers. Unlike our CMS scholarly counterparts, most librarians who align with critical perspectives are also themselves practitioners. For us, CP offers useful framing and thought-provoking ideas for integrating our critical leanings and our daily practice in order to work for achievable change.

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Just-in-Time or Just-in-Case? Time, Learning Analytics, and the Academic Library

Cited by 14 publications

References 44 publications

The Contested One-Shot: Deconstructing Power Structures to Imagine New Futures

The Contested One-Shot: Deconstructing Power Structures to Imagine New Futures

The Coin of Love and Virtue: Academic Libraries and Value in a Global Pandemic

Critical Library Performativity: Toward Progressive Change in Academic Library Management and Organizations

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