An analysis of online syllabi for credit-bearing library skills courses

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 525-535

  Hrycaj, Paul L ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33845292238     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.67.6.525     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Association of College & Research Libraries, Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (Chicago: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2000). Available online at http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/ acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm.
2. Barbara J. Wittkopf, "A Look at the State of BI Credit Courses in ARL-Member Libraries," Research Strategies 9 (Fall 1991): 162-63.
3. Jeanne R. Davidson, Paula S. McMillen, and Laurel S. Maughan, "Using the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education to Assess a University Library Instruction Program," Journal of Library Administration 36, no. 1/2 (2002): 97-121.
4. Jeanne R. Davidson, Paula S. McMillen, and Laurel S. Maughan, Journal of Library Administration. Ibid., 99.
5. Richard Feinberg and Christine King, "Short-Term Library Skill Competencies: Arguing for the Achievable," College & Research Libraries 49 (Jan. 1988): 24-28.
6. Richard Feinberg and Christine King, College & Research Libraries. Ibid., 25.
7. As noted above, the "critical thinking" approach to bibliographic instruction was well represented in the literature even at the time of Feinberg and King's paper (i.e. 1988); the authors cite this approach in a number of papers at the beginning of their discussion. And, since the time of Feinberg and King's paper, this approach has continued to find many proponents in the library science literature. Some notable examples of this are: Sonia Bodi, "Critical Thinking and Bibliographic Instruction: the Relationship," Journal of Academic Librarianship 14 (July 1988): 150-53;
8. Cerise Oberman, "Avoiding the Cereal Syndrome; or, Critical Thinking in the Electronic Environment," Library Trends 39 (Winter 1991): 189-202;
9. and Craig Gibson, "Critical Thinking: Implications for Instruction," RQ, 35 (Fall 1995), 27-35.
10. Linda Shirato and Joseph Badics, "Library Instruction in the 1990's: A Comparison with Trends in Two Earlier LOEX Surveys," Research Strategies 15, no. 4 (1997): 223-37.
11. "Number of U.S. Colleges and Universities and Degrees Awarded," infoplease, based on 2002-2003 figures from the Chronicle of Higher Education. [Accessed 20 July 2005]. Available online at www.infoplease.com.
12. Creative Research Systems, "Sample Size Calculator," using a standard statistics formula with a confidence level of 95% and a confidence interval of 4. [Accessed on 20 July 2005]. Available online at www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm.
13. Some examples of this literature are: Richard Raspa and Dane Ward, The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe (Chicago: Associa-tion of College and Research Libraries, 2000);
14. David Carlson and Ruth H. Miller, "Librarians and Teaching Faculty: Partners in Bibliographic Instruction," College and Research Libraries 45, no. 6 (1994): 483-91;
15. Barbara F. Schloman and Rodney M. Feldmann, "Developing Information Gathering Skills in Geology Students Through Faculty-Librarian Collaboration," Science & Technology Libraries 14, no. 2 (Winter 1993): 35-47;
16. Linda L. Stein and Jane M. Lamb, "Not Just Another BI: Faculty-Librarian Collaboration to Guide Students Through the Research Process," Research Strategies 16, no. 1 (1998): 29-39;
17. Christine Black, Sarah Crest, and Mary Volland, "Building a Successful Information Literacy Infrastructure on the Foundation of Librarian-Faculty Collaboration," Research Strategies 18, no. 3 (2001): 215-25;
18. Jennifer L. Domer, Susan E. Taylor, and Kay Hodson-Carlton, "Faculty-Librarian Collaboration for Nursing Information Literacy: A Tiered Approach," Reference Services Review 29, no. 2 (2001): 132-40;
19. Ann M. Fiegen, Bennett Cherry, and Kathleen Watson, "Reflections on Collaboration: Learning Outcomes and Information Literacy Assessment in the Business Curriculum," Reference Services Review 30, no. 4 (2002): 307-18.