Enduring visions of instruction in academic libraries: A review of a spirited early twentieth-century discussion

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Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 259-281

  Gunselman, Cheryl ^a   Blakesley, Elizabeth ^a  

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1. Lucy M. Salmon, "Instruction in the Use of a College Library," ALA Bulletin 7 (July 1913): 301-309. 301.
2. Virginia Clark, "Teaching Students to Use the Library: Whose Responsibility?" College and Research Libraries 21 (1960): 369-372.
3. Reprinted in Teaching for Better Use of Libraries, ed. Charles L. Trinkner (Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1969), 255-262. 255.
4. Jon Lindgren, "The Idea of Evidence in Bibliographic Inquiry," in Theories of Bibliographic Education: Designs for Teaching, ed. Cerise Oberman and Katina Stauch (New York: Bowker, 1982), 27-46+28.
5. Abby Kasowitz-Scheer and Michael Pasqualoni, "Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education: Trends and Issues," ERIC Digest (June 2002): 3-4. Also available at Library Publications, Paper 34, Syracuse University (n.d.), http://surface.syr.edu/sul/34 (accessed 25 April 2012).
6. Peter Hernon, "Instruction in the Use of Academic Libraries: A Preliminary Study of the Early Years as Based on Selective Extant Materials," Journal of Library History 17, 1 (1982): 16-38+34.
7. W. R. Harper, "The Trend of University and College Education in the United States," North American Review 174 (1902): 457-465+458.
8. Justin Winsor, "College Libraries as Aids to Instruction: The College Library," in Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education; No. 1-1880 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880), 9.
9. Margaret Knox Goggin, "Instruction in the Use of the University Library," in Educating the Library User, ed. John Lubans (New York: Bowker, 1974), 104-110.
10. nd rev. ed. (Englewood: Libraries Unlimited, 1989), 2.
11. Esther Grassian and Joan Kaplowitz. Information Literacy Handbook (Neal-Schuman, 2000, 2nd edition 2009) is an exhaustive resource for a wide array of topics, from psychology and learning theory to programming and assessment. Perusing the LOEX conference proceedings (Pierian Press) through the years is also an instructive way to see trends that have developed.
12. Association of College & Research Libraries, "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education," American Library Association, (2000) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/standards.pdf (accessed August 1, 2011).
13. Christy R. Stevens, "Beyond Preaching to the Choir: Information Literacy, Faculty Outreach, and Disciplinary Journals," Journal of Academic Librarianship 33, 2 (2006): 254-267.
14. Stevens was expanding on previous work published in 1998 by Julie Still ("The Role and Image of the Library and Librarians in Discipline-Specific Pedagogical Journals," Journal of Academic Librarianship 24, 3: 225-231)
15. and exploring the potential impact of the ACRL Information Literacy Standards. Stevens searched for any mention of libraries or librarians, as well as information literacy, in all issues from 2000 through 2005. She found 93 items and performed further analysis on the article content, concluding that, although still relatively small in number, The description of assignments and level of collaboration had increased in complexity as compared to the items found in Still'S study.
16. John Cotton Dana, "The Use of Print in the World of Affairs," Library Journal 35, 12 (1910): 535-538
17. Lucy Maynard Salmon, "On the College Professor," Library Journal 36, 2 (1911): 51-54
18. Lucy M. Salmon, "Vassar College Introductory Course in History," The History Teacher'S Magazine 1, 7 (1910): 145-148.
19. Willard Austen, "Efficiency in College and University Library Work," Library Journal 36, 11 (1911): 566-569
20. Kendric C. Babcock, "Bibliographical Instruction in College," Library Journal 33, 3 (1913): 133-136
21. L.L. Dickerson, "The College Librarian and His Community," Library Journal 40, 5 (1915): 313-321.
22. Sarah Rodriguez, "Lucy Maynard Salmon," in Vassar Encyclopedia, Vassar College, (2004), http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/faculty/prominent-faculty/lucy-maynard-salmon.html (accessed May 28, 2010)
23. Murry R. Nelson, "Lucy Maynard Salmon (1853-1927): Pioneering Views on Teaching History," Social Studies 87, 1 (1996): 7-12.
24. For more information about discussions of library instruction in the professional literature of this period, see Peter Hernon, "Instruction in the Use of Academic Libraries,"
25. and John Mark Tucker, "The Origins of Bibliographic Instruction in Academic Libraries, 1876-1914," in New Horizons for Academic Libraries: Papers Presented at the First National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Boston, Massachusetts, November 8-11, 1978 (New York: K. G. Saur, 1979): 268-276.
26. Arthur Bostwick, A Life with Men and Books (New York: H.W. Wilson, 1939): 195.
27. Dana, "The Use of Print," 535.
28. John C. Dana, "Book-Using Skill in Higher Education," Bulletin of the American Library Association 3, 5 (1909): 191.
29. Salmon, "On the College Professor," 51.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Chara Haeussler Bohan, Go to the Sources: Lucy Maynard Salmon and the Teaching of History (New York: Peter Lang, 2001), 52-53.
33. Willard Austen discussion comments in Dana, "Book-Using Skill," 196-197.
34. Austen, "Efficiency in College," 566.
35. Ibid., 568.
36. Kendric C. Babcock, "Bibliographical Instruction in College," 135. This type of course was already in place in some American colleges and universities. Babcock gives three specific examples of existing courses, at the Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University), the University of North Dakota, and the Ohio State University.
37. Ibid.
38. th Annual Meeting: Lucy M. Salmon, "Instruction in the Use of a College Library," ALA Bulletin 7, 4 (July 1913): 301-309.
39. In her report on the section program at the ALA meeting, Salmon'S colleague, Vassar College librarian Amanda Reed, described Salmon'S paper and repeated the discussion summary: Amanda Reed, "College and Reference Section," Library Journal 38, 8 (1913): 471-472.
40. Salmon'S paper was republished in User Instruction in Academic Libraries: A Century of Selected Readings, ed. Larry L. Hardesty et al., (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1986).
41. Salmon, "Instruction in the Use of a College Library," 302.
42. Ibid., 301.
43. For a general overview of the history of bibliographic instruction, we suggest: John Mark Tucker, "The Origins of Bibliographic Instruction in Academic Libraries, 1876-1914," in New Horizons for Academic Libraries, 268-276
44. and Mary F. Salony, "The History of Bibliographic Instruction: Changing Trends from Books to the Electronic World," Reference Librarian 51/52 (1995): 31-51.
45. In 1916, Oberlin College librarian Azariah Smith Root produced a very early library instruction literature review: Azariah S. Root, "The Literature of Staff Teaching," in American Library Institute Papers and Proceedings (Chicago: American Library Association, 1916): 29-36.
46. For more information about librarian status, and the complex effects of gender, campus culture, social norms, and other factors, we recommend: Wayne A. Wiegand, The Politics of an Emerging Profession: The American Library Association, 1876-1917 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1986)
47. and Orvin Lee Shiflett, Origins of American Academic Librarianship (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pub. Corp, 1981).
48. For a thorough overview of American higher education history, see Frederick Rudolph and Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, Curriculum: A History of the American Undergraduate Course of Study Since 1636, 1st ed. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1977).
49. Salmon, "Instruction in the Use of a College Library," 304-305.
50. Ibid., 309.
51. Muriel Bennett, "The Role of the Resource Unit in Library Instruction," Illinois Libraries 35 (1953): 150-153. Reprinted in Teaching for Better Use of Libraries, ed. Charles L. Trinkner, (Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1969), 234-240. 237.
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53. Leslie Starasta, "Evaluating Articles vs. Evaluating/analyzing the Research?" ILI-L (ili-l@ ala.org), June 8, 2010 (accessed August 8, 2010)
54. and replies from Susan Ariew, Susan Cooperstein, Randy Hensley, Bill Badke, Debra Cox Rollins, and Barbara Fister.
55. Dickerson, "The College Librarian," 313.
56. Ibid., 314.
57. Ibid., 321.
58. There have been numerous conversations at conferences and online at ILI-L about whether teaching students to use specific, proprietary, licensed databases that they will likely not have access to once they have graduated is or is not a valuable endeavor.
59. Arthur Twining Hadley, quoted by Salmon in "Vassar College Introductory Course in History," The History Teacher'S Magazine, 145.
60. Hadley'S speech, "Two Sides of University Life," was published in the Johns Hopkins University Circular, 214, n.s. 3 (1909): 4-14.
61. John Cotton Dana, "The College Library," The Freeman 6 (February 21, 1923): 561.
62. Ibid.
63. Ibid., 563.
64. A letter in Salmon'S papers indicates that she attempted to respond to Dana'S article immediately, submitting a manuscript to Eleanor Duncan, editor of Library Journal, but it was not accepted for immediate publication due to "an unusual accumulation of other material." (Unpublished letter from Eleanor Duncan to Lucy Salmon, June 29, 1923, Lucy Maynard Salmon Papers, Vassar College Library.)
65. Lucy M. Salmon, "The College Library," Libraries 31, 7 (1926): 322-325.
66. John C. Dana, "Complimented" (letter to the Editor), Libraries 31, 8 (1926): 393.
67. Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, "Six Learning Goals of the Baccalaureate," (n.d.), Washington State University, http://vpue.wsu.edu/overview/sixgoals/(accessed August 4, 2011).
68. Debra Cox Rollings et al, "Are We There Yet? The Difficult Road to Re-Create Information Literacy," portal: Libraries and the Academy 9, 4 (2009): 453-473+454.
69. Stanley Wilder, "Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions." Chronicle of Higher Education (January 7, 2005): B13.
70. Esther Grassian, "Information Literacy: Wilder Makes (Some Right, But) Many Wrong Assumptions." Guest Opinions, Librarians Association of the University of California. (15 February 2005), http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/opinions/literacy.html (accessed July 10, 2011).
71. Barbara Fister, "Curriculum Issues in Information Literacy Instruction: Course-Related Instruction," in Information Literacy Instruction Handbook, ed. Christopher N. Cox and Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay (Chicago: ACRL, 2008), 94-103.
72. Bernice L. Dunten, "How to Make the Library Function," Medical Library Association Bulletin 41 (October 1953): 410-413.
73. Reprinted in Teaching for Better Use of Libraries (Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1969), 130-135.
74. Gloria J. Leckie, "Desperately Seeking Citations: Uncovering Faculty Assumptions about the Undergraduate Research Process," Journal of Academic Librarianship 22, 3 (2006): 201-208
75. Philip M. Davis, "Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior: Guiding Student Scholarship in a Networked Age," portal: Libraries and the Academy 3, 1 (2003): 41-51
76. Christen Thompson, "Information Illiterate or Lazy: How College Students Use the Web for Research," portal: Libraries and the Academy 3, 2 (2003): 259-268.
77. Steve Kolowich, "What Students Don't Know." Inside Higher Ed, August 22, 2011. The study was designed to use open-ended interviews and direct observation to gather deeper data than a survey would elicit. In addition to uncovering interesting information about the perceptions of librarians and libraries among the faculty, the study also made clear that "students' study habits are worse than they thought."
78. Sheila Cunningham, Allison Carr, and Stephanie Sterling Brasley. "Uncovering the IL Disconnect: Examining Expectations among Librarians, Faculty, and Students," ACRL National Conference, Philadelphia (April 2, 2011), http://hdl.handle.net/10211.1/804 (accessed March 29, 2012).
79. Megan Oakleaf for the Association of College and Research Libraries, Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report, (Chicago: American Library Association, 2010) http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/value/val_report.pdf (accessed March 29, 2012).
80. See also Megan Oakleaf, Michelle S. Millet, and Leah Kraus, "All Together Now: Getting Faculty, Administrators, and Staff Engaged in Information Literacy Assessment." portal: Libraries and the Academy 11, 3 (2011): 831-852.
81. Patricia B. Knapp, "The Methodology and Results of the Monteith Pilot Project," Library Trends 13, 1 (1964): 84-102.