Recommended Reading

Information Literacy Readings

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Libraries as the community partner in a service-learning relationship

  • Brown-Sica, M. (2013). Using academic courses to generate data for use in evidence based library planning. Journal Of Academic Librarianship, 39(3), 275-287. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2013.01.001
  • Chesnut, M. (2011). Recession-friendly library market research: Service learning with benefits. Journal Of Library Innovation,2(1), 61-71.
  • Heiselt, A. K., & Wolverton, R. E. (2009). Libraries: Partners in linking college students and their communities through service learning.   Reference & User Services Quarterly, 49(1), 83-90.
  • Meyer, N. J., & Miller, I. R. (2008). The library as service-learning partner: A win-win collaboration with students and faculty. College & Undergraduate Libraries, 15(4), 399-413. doi:10.1080/10691310802554879
  • Vetter, M. A. (2014). Archive 2.0: What composition students and academic libraries can gain from digital-collaborative pedagogies. Composition Studies, 42(1), 35–53.

Service-Learning & Libraries

  • Barry, M. (2014). Community engagement through service-learning.  Strategic Library, (4) 5-7. https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/ul_pub/166/
  • Barry, M. (2011).  Librarians as partners in service-learning courses (Part II).  LOEX Quarterly: 38(2), Article 4. https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/ul_pub/132/
  • Barry, M. (2011).  Librarians as partners in service-learning courses (Part I).  LOEX Quarterly: 38(1), Article 5. https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/ul_pub/130/
  • Barry, M. (2011).  Research for the greater good: Incorporating service-learning in an information literacy course at Wright State University.  College & Research Libraries News, 72(6), 345-348. https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/8583/8954
  • Barry, M. (2012).  Service learning:  Engaging college students with the library and information literacy principles.  In L. Snavely (Ed.), Student engagement and the academic library (pp. 85-94). Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.
  • Barry, M., Lowe, L. A., & Twill, S. (2017). Academic librarians’ attitudes about civic-mindedness and service learning. Library Quarterly, 87(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1086/689311
  • Bartow, J. R., & Mann, P. (2020). Reimagining epistemologies: Librarian-faculty collaboration to integrate critical information literacy into Spanish community-based learning. Currents in Teaching & Learning, 11(2), 16–31.
  • Blodgett, J. (2017). Taking the class out of the classroom: Libraries, literacy, and service learning. In P. McDonnell (Ed.), The experiential library : Transforming Academic and Research Libraries Through the Power of Experiential Learning. (pp. 43-52). Chandos Publishing.
  • Brewster, A. E., Branch, N. A., & Nutefall, J. E. (2021). Critical information literacy and critical service learning: Potential partners in students’ social justice learning? Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 27(1), 93–128. https://doi.org/10.3998/mjcsloa.3239521.0027.105
  • Brizee, A., Pascual-Ferrá, P., & Caranante, G. (2020). High-impact civic engagement: Outcomes of community-based research in technical writing courses. Journal of Technical Writing & Communication, 50(3), 224–251. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281619853266
  • Ching, S. H. (2018). Turning a service learning experience into a model of student engagement: The Lighthouse Heritage Research Connections (LHRC) project in Hong Kong. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 44(2), 196–206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2018.02.007
  • Cummings, L. U. (2007). Bursting out of the box:  Outreach to the millennial generation through student services programs. Reference Services Review, 35(2), 285-295. https://doi.org/10.1108/00907320710749191
  • Gruber, A. M. (2018). Real-world research: A qualitative study of faculty perceptions of the library’s role in service-learning. portal: Libraries & the Academy, 18(4), 671–692. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2018.0040
  • Hernandez, M. & Knight, L.A. (2010).  Reinventing the box:  Faculty-librarian collaborative efforts to foster service learning for political engagement.  Journal for Civic Commitment, 14(1). https://www.mesacc.edu/community-civic-engagement/journals/reinventing-box-faculty-librarian-collaborative-efforts-foster
  • Herther, N. K. (2008). Service learning and engagement in the academic library. College & Research Libraries News, 69(7), 386-389. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.69.7.8021
  • Janke, R., Pesut, B., & Erbacker, L.  (2012).  Promoting information literacy through collaborative service learning in an undergraduate research course.  Nurse Education Today, 32, 920-923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2011.09.016
  • Kennedy, H. R., & Gruber, A. M. H. (2020). Critical thinking in a service-learning course: Impacts of information literacy instruction. Communications in Information Literacy, 14(2), 205–226. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2020.14.2.3
  • Leek, D. R. (2016). Policy debate pedagogy: A complementary strategy for civic and political engagement through service-learning. Communication Education, 65(4), 397–408. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2016.1203004
  • McDevitt, T. R., & Finegan, C. P. (2018). Library service and learning: Empowering and building community connections. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries.
  • McDevitt, T. R. (2014). Whipping up a better world: Embedding library instruction into service learning classes with community-based research assignments. In K. Calkins & C. Kvenild (Eds.), The embedded librarian's cookbook. Association of College and Research Libraries.
  • McLoughlin, D., & Wilson, R. (2007). Painting the roses red: Volunteering in the community. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 13(1), 71-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614530802021680
  • Nutefall, J.E., Branch, N., & and Gruber, A.M. (2020). Service learning, Community-Based Learning. In J. Ruelle (Ed.), The Engaged Library: High-Impact Educational Practices & Academic Libraries. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries. 
  • Nutefall, J. E. (Ed.) (2016). Service learning, information literacy, and libraries. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
  • Nutefall, J. E. (2009). The relationship between service learning and research. Public Services Quarterly, 5(4), 250-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228950903199271
  • Nutefall, Jennifer E. (2011). Why service learning is important to librarians. OLA Quarterly, 17(3), 16-21. 
  • Potter, S. J., Caffrey, E. M., & Plante, E. G. (2003). Integrating service learning into the research methods course. Teaching Sociology, 31(1), 38-48. https://doi.org/10.2307/3211423
  • Rathswohl, E. J. (2003).  Information Literacy: A community service-learning approach.  Informing Science Journal, 6, 187-192. https://doi.org/10.28945/525
  • Rhodes, N. J., & Davis, J. M. (2001). Using service learning to get positive reactions in the library. Computers in Libraries, 21(1), 32.
  • Riddle, J. S. (2003). Where’s the library in service learning?: Models for engaged library instruction. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 29(2), 71. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0099-1333(02)00424-X
  • Riddle, J. S. (2010).  Information and service learning.  In M. T. Accardi, E. Drabinski  &  A. Kumbier (Eds.),  Critical library instruction: Theories and methods (pp. 133-148). Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.
  • Rudick, C. K., Golsan, K. B., & Freitag, J. (2018). Critical communication pedagogy and service learning in a mixed-method communication research course. Communication Teacher, 32(1), 54–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2017.1372615
  • Scripps-Hoekstra, L. (2020). Taking the campus into the community: Information literacy instruction and service learning. In G. Schaub & H. McClure (Eds.), Engaging students through campus libraries: High-impact learning models. ABC-CLIO.
  • Shostak, S., Corral, M., Ward, A. G., & Willett, A. (2019). Integrating community-based research into a senior capstone seminar: Lessons learned from a mixed-methods study. Teaching Sociology, 47(3), 191–203. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0092055X19841667
  • Simoes, S. & Gray, S. (2008) Combining academic service-learning and information literacy: A new framework for an introductory women’s studies course. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at EMU, 2, Article 8.  https://commons.emich.edu/sotl/vol2/iss1/8
  • Sweet, C. (2013).  Information literacy and service-learning: Creating powerful synergies.   In L. Gregory & S. Higgins (Eds.), Information literacy and social justice: Radical professional praxis (pp. 247-274).  Sacramento, California: Library Juice Press.
  • Thompson, B. J., & Baugnon, R. A. (2017). A collaborative digital oral history collection: Building a digital collection of student scholarship documenting Latino Americans in southeast North Carolina. Alexandria, 27(1), 30–40. https://doi.org/10.1177/0955749017723214
  • Wallace, L. M. (2005). A librarian’s guide to service-learning. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 4(3), 385-390. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMLE.2005.18122432
  • Westney, L. C., & De, l. P. (2006). Conspicuous by their absence. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 45(3), 200-203. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20864514
  • Young, S., & Maley, M. (2018). Using practitioner-engaged evidence synthesis to teach research and information literacy skills: A model and case study. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 44(2), 231–237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2018.02.002

Citizenship, Civic Engagement and Academic Libraries

  • Donlin, M. H. (2021). The academic librarian’s role in fostering civic literacy and engagement. Public Services Quarterly, 17(3), 188–194. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228959.2021.1937444
  • Fournier, M. D., & Ostman, S. (Eds.). (2021). Ask, listen, empower: Grounding your library work in community engagement. ALA Editions. 
  • Goodsett, M. (2021). DEMOCRACY 101: Libraries promoting civic engagement. Computers in Libraries, 41(11), 32–36.
  • Gruber, A.M. & Sebree, J. (2022). LEGOTM, the library, and a mastodon tusk: Undergraduate research partnerships in chemistry. In Nagle, S. & Tzoc, E. (Eds.) Innovation and experiential learning in academic libraries: Meeting the needs of today's students (Innovations in Information Literacy series). Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Henner, T. (2018). A community and medical library collaboration to address senior caregivers barriers to health services access. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet, 22(2), 112–125. https://doi.org/10.1080/15398285.2018.1448629
  • Kranich, N. (2020). Libraries and Democracy Revisited. Library Quarterly, 90(2), 121–153. https://doi.org/10.1086/707670
  • Kranich, N. (2017). Libraries: Reuniting the Divided States of America. Library Quarterly, 87(4), 419–429. https://doi.org/10.1086/693495
  • Kranich, N. (2013). Libraries and Strong Democracy: Moving from an Informed to a Participatory 21st Century Citizenry. Indiana Libraries, 32(1), 13–20. https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/IndianaLibraries/article/view/4228
  • Kranich, N. C. (2010). Academic libraries as hubs for deliberative democracy.  Journal of Public Deliberation, 6(1),  n.p. http://services.bepress.com/jpd/vol6/iss1/art4
  • Kranich, N. (2006). The Civic Mission of School Libraries. Knowledge Quest, 34(3), 10–17.
  • Kranich, N. (2005). Civic Partnerships: The Role of Libraries in Promoting Civic Engagement. Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 18(1/2), 89–103. https://doi.org/10.1300/J121v18n01_08
  • Kranich, N., Reid, M., & Willingham, T. (2004). Civic engagement in academic libraries. College & Research Libraries News, 65(7), 380–388. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.65.7.7299
  • Kranich, N. C. (2001). Libraries & democracy : The cornerstones of liberty. American Library Association.
  • Kranich, N. (2001). Libraries create social capital. Library Journal, 126(19), 40-41.
  • Ryan, M., & Swindells, G. (2018). Democratic practice: Libraries and education for citizenship. portal: Libraries & the Academy, 18(4), 623–628. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2018.0036
  • Walter, V. A. (2020). Young activists and the public library: Facilitating democracy. ALA Editions.
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