“…This support has been made manifest through a variety of initiatives, of which information literacy teaching forms one of the most common (see Peters, 2010). The desire to help newcomers settle in and succeed in their new setting is, as Powell (2014) points out with reference to retention narratives, an idea against which it is hard to argue. However, research illustrates that an uncritical acceptance of the ways in which librarians attempt to assist international populations may serve to complicate rather than to facilitate engagement within culturally unfamiliar information environments (Conteh-Morgan, 2003;Hicks, 2016, Hicks & Lloyd, 2016.…”