Transforming Information Literacy Programs: Intersecting Frontiers of Self, Library Culture, and Campus Community. Eds. Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson and Courtney Bruch. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2012. 263p. $62 (ISBN 9780838986035). LC 2011-050153

نویسنده

  • Kate B. Moore
چکیده

services that are traditional to public libraries, the book will be of less interest to most academic librarians. Public librarians and library school students are the principal audience. As a result, overall, this book serves as a valuable source for public librarians who want to reevaluate and reexamine their instructional services .—Ning Han, Mississippi State University. Librarians have long been viewed as gatekeepers, stationed at the boundary between information resources and information users. In an era of ubiquitous information, when there is no gate left to keep, libraries are reexamining their culture and priorities as they adapt to a rapidly shifting environment. Perhaps one of the most dramatic responses to this era of change has been libraries' increased emphasis on information literacy. However, as the editors and contributors of Transforming Information Literacy Programs observe, libraries are still torn between their traditional role as service organizations and this still-evolving idea of the academic library as an institution fundamentally engaged in teaching and learning. The ambitious agenda of this book is to survey the current landscape of information literacy programming development, identify frontiers as yet little explored, and " serve as a catalyst… for transformational change " in libraries. Transforming Information Literacy Programs is broken into four sections, each with two to three chapters. The sections explore the metaphor of the " frontier " including " Outlining Current Boundaries, " " Frontiers of Self, " " Fortifying Institutional Partnerships, " and " Charting Next Steps. " The nine chapters all fall within the larger theme of their respective sections , and the sections follow each other in logical order. The first section, " Outlining Current Boundaries, " focuses on the current state of information literacy, both in the literature and in practice. In the opening chapter , the editors, Carroll Wetzel Wilkinson and Courtney Bruch, provide a literature review that, for the most part, focuses on the main challenges librarians face when working with information literacy. Rather than stop there, they conclude with a review of the literature on changing institutional culture to focus on information literacy and provide a list of specific recommendations for ACRL leaders, key campus officials, individual instruction librarians, and groups of librarians to foster an information literacy culture. In the second chapter, Dr. Celene Seymour continues the theme of " outlining current boundaries " by investigating the culture of information literacy instruction using an ethnographic study of …

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • C&RL

دوره 73  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012