Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think about Information

Publications in Librarianship #68

by Troy A. Swanson, Heather Jagman

Explores how librarians and faculty work together to teach students about the nature of expertise, authority, and credibility. The book provides practical approaches for motivating students to explore their beliefs, biases, and ways of interpreting the world.

Genres: Nonfiction, Teaching, Library Science, Professional Development, Education

440 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 2015

Reviews

[M.liss · Rating 2 out of 5]

Many of the essays in this book mentioned Freire and hooks, charging librarians to use egalitarian, inclusive pedagogy. I'm glad to see that attitude represented in force. I also took some lesson ideas away from this book. Some familiar ideas were reinforced: I should really try a lesson analyzing news stories from different sources on the same topic, which would be a good way to introduce bias detection in Comp. I also really want to do the kind of bibliography analysis Walls and Pajewski detail. The idea of students creating zines, as Mulroney and Williams describe in their chapter, is new to me and could be a very successful assignment for the right course.

I have two complaints about this book. First, several of the chapters overlap conceptually. I understand that this book is not meant to be read straight through, but I did that anyway. It was a real slog. Secondly, this book is riddled with typos. Not cool. We tell students to consider typos a warning sign that a source may not be credible. I would expect the ACRL to be absolutely sure to scrub works of distracting typos. One or two might happen, but I found them in most chapters, and that's a real turn-off for me.

[Denise]

Information literacy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
Library orientation for college students -- United States.
Academic libraries -- Relations with faculty and

[Mills College Library]

028.70711 N899 2015

[Alesia]

Only read first chapter but would like to get back to it at some point.