Susan Carol Curzon

It is always instructive to see what teacher librarian’s academic cousins are up to in their quest to push information literacy into the curriculum. Well, they have come a long way in the past few years. One usually thinks of a required course on “library” being a part of a college student’s curriculum, but the boring and largely ineffectual model has given way to closer and closer models of collaboration. The editors have assembled essays from a wide variety of academic librarians who have been experimenting beyond library orientation into deeper understanding of information and the various delivery methods. Academic librarians, who generally lack degrees in education struggle at times with educational theories, but they recognize that the product that teacher librarians send to them from the lower grades is insufficient for many students to adapt well to the academic environment. As we look at the collection, we hope that we can do a better job in both preparing the information literate student and also in communicating to these professionals what true collaboration looks like when professor and academic librarian collaboratively build learning experiences together. If you thought collaboration was tough with high school teachers, meet the professors our collegues have to deal with. Recommended for readers who are trying to get an overview of information literacy efforts beyond the K-12 arena.… (plus d'informations)