Workplace information literacy : cultivation strategies for 'working smarter' in 21st century libraries

This paper presents a hybrid framework of Swedish cultural practices and Australian grounded theory for organizational development and suggests practical strategies for 'working smarter' in 21st Century libraries. Toward that end, reflective evidence-based practices are offered to incrementally build organizational capacity for asking good questions, selecting authoritative sources, evaluating multiple perspectives, organizing emerging insights, and communicating them to inform, educate, and influence. In addition, to ensure the robust information exchange necessary to collective workplace learning, leadership traits are proposed for ensuring inclusive communication, decision making, and planning processes. These findings emerge from action research projects conducted from 2003 to 2008 in two North American libraries.

Visual Literacy Standards in Higher Education: New Opportunities for Libraries and Student Learning

Visual literacy is essential for 21st century learners. Across the higher education curriculum, students are being asked to use and produce images and visual media in their academic work, and they must be prepared to do so. The Association of College and Research Libraries has published the Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, which for the first time, outline specific visual literacy learning outcomes. These Standards present new opportunities for libraries to expand their role in student learning through standards-based teaching and assessment, and to contribute to campus-wide collaborative efforts to develop students’ skills and critical thinking with regard to visual materials.

Travel policies in ARL libraries /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123)

Audiovisual policies in ARL libraries /

Includes bibliographical references (p. i)

Materials budgets in ARL libraries /

Includes bibliographical references.

Minority recruitment and retention in ARL libraries /

"September 1990."

Student employment programs in ARL libraries /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139).

Information desks in ARL libraries /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175).

Cultural diversity programming in ARL libraries /

Title from cover.

Salary setting policies in ARL libraries.

"September 1991."

Academic status for librarians in ARL libraries /

"March 1992."

System migration in ARL libraries /

"June 1992"

Benefits for professional staff in ARL libraries /

At head of title : Systems and Procedures Exchange Center.

Reference service policies in ARL libraries /

"August 1994."

User surveys in ARL libraries /

"Contains the results of a 1994 survey on the use of user surveys by 69 ARL members. This kit focuses on planning, designing, conduction, and analyzing surveys, and incorporating the results into the decision-making process"--SPEC flyer, p. [1].