From the front line: information literacy instruction in Canadian academic libraries

Abstract

Reports on data collected from an on‐going Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)‐funded study of information literacy and bibliographic instruction in Canadian academic libraries. The goal of this three‐year study is to identify instructional outcomes and characterize successful instruction from the perspectives of the institutions providing that instruction (particularly the librarian‐ instructors), and the students receiving the instruction. Focuses on the current practices of librarian‐instructors on the front lines of bibliographic instruction in Canada, looking at their experiences, goals, instructional methods and challenges in providing information literacy services. Seeks to fill a gap in our understanding of the circumstances and challenges that face librarians at the beginning of the twenty‐first century, and the attitudes of those librarians towards bibliographic instruction and the changing role of information literacy in Canadian post‐secondary institutions.