Live briefing
Everything about Library instruction
Library instruction, also called bibliographic instruction, user education and library orientation, is the process where librarians teach their patrons how to access information in libraries. It often involves instruction about research and organizational tools and methods. It prepares individuals to make immediate and lifelong use of information effectively by teaching the concepts and logic of information access and evaluation, and by fostering information independence and critical thinking. Above all they are aimed at equipping library users with skills to locate library sources and use them effectively to satisfy their information needs. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Library instructionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Using ChatGPT-generated essays in library instructionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Prince and the PauperThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Library instruction goes onlineCited 13 times
- Go sideways: Information literacyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Distance education librarianA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Library instruction goes online
Library instruction and information literacy
Accessible Library Instruction in Practice
Library Instruction and Foreign Students
Library Instruction on the Web
Library Instruction:
Rethinking library instruction:
Taking Library Instruction Online
🆕 Influential since 2022
Using ChatGPT-generated essays in library instruction
Library instruction and information literacy 2021
Correlation Between Library Instruction and Student Retention: Methods and Implications
2021 ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey: Highlights and key academic library instruction and group presentation findings
Teaching strategies for library instruction: directions from the literature
📚 Books worth reading
The Prince and the PauperMark Twain · 1881
Les MisérablesVictor Hugo · 1862
Enhancing teaching and learningJean Donham · 1998
Sex magazines in the library collectionPeter Gellatly · 1981- 📕Technology and the School LibraryOdin L. Jurkowski · 2006
Information literacy and information skills instructionNancy Pickering Thomas · 1999- 📕Statistics of public and private school library media centers, 1985-86Margaret Werner Cahalan · 1987
- 📕PSES, Purdue self-evaluation system for school media centersDavid V. Loertscher · 1976
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Information literacy The Association of College and Research Libraries defines information literacy as a "set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery…
- Distance education librarian A distance education librarian or distance learning librarian is a specialized academic librarian whose primary duties involve serving the information…
- Library anxiety Library anxiety refers to the "feeling that one’s research skills are inadequate and that those shortcomings should be hidden". In some students this manifests…
- Academic library An academic library is a library that is attached to a higher education institution, which supports the curriculum and the research of the university faculty…
- Pathfinder (library science) A pathfinder is a bibliography created to help begin research in a particular topic or subject area. Pathfinders are also called subject guides, topic…
- Data literacy Data literacy is the ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information. Much like literacy as a general concept, data literacy focuses…
- The Citation Project The Citation Project is a series of studies that measure and analyze first-year college writing students' source use and their ability to understand and…
- CRAAP test The CRAAP test is a test that evaluates the objective reliability of information sources across academic disciplines. CRAAP is an acronym for Currency…