Addressing Barriers to Research-Informed Practice: A Library and Social Work Collaboration to Empower Future Practitioners

Social work education prioritizes the use of research to inform practice. As university students, prospective social workers have a wealth of research available to them as well as librarians to help them find, evaluate, and use that information. However, access to much of this research ends once the student graduates—at a time when it is most needed to inform their professional practice. To address this challenge, a librarian and a social work faculty member worked with one class of students in their final semester of a bachelor’s degree in social work program to promote awareness of information privilege and barriers to access, to expand their understanding of authority to include marginalized voices, and to utilize an open pedagogy assignment as a means of proactively addressing these challenges. This article describes what was learned from this effort, including the results of surveys conducted with students before and after instruction

Video-Based Surgical Learning: Improving Trainee Education and Preparation for Surgery

Since the end of the XIX century, teaching of surgery has remained practically unaltered until now. With the dawn of video-assisted laparoscopy, surgery has faced new technical and learning challenges. Due to technological advances, from Internet access to portable electronic devices, the use of online resources is part of the educational armamentarium. In this respect, videos have already proven to be effective and useful, however the best way to benefit from these tools is still not clearly defined.Surgical Sciences Research Domain, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, School of Medicineinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

One librarian: 1,400 freshmen

How can librarians provide information literacy instruction for high enrollment courses and not lose our minds? Find out how one librarian at California State University, Fresno, in collaboration with her colleagues in the Freshman English Program, created a more sustainable, scalable and open approach to instruction by using a blog. By using an approachable writing style, customized content, and a video introduction by the librarian, the blog has a more approachable and personal feel than many digital learning objects and can be used by instructors in many different ways. In this session, the presenter will discuss the blog’s development and integration into two pilot courses as well as plans for improvement and eventual use in all freshman English courses. If you’ve ever felt daunted by the idea of providing instruction to high enrollment courses, this session is for you

Review of Leading Dynamic Information Literacy Programs: Best Practices and Stories from Instruction Coordinators, edited by Anne C. Behler

Review of Behler, A. C. (Ed.). (2023). Leading dynamic information literacy programs: Best practices and stories from instruction coordinators. Routledge