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Course instructor as customer.(teaching information literacy )

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Abstract

Teaching librarians have long struggled with the limitations of the one-shot, fifty-minute class. As the influence of information literacy continues to grow in the world of librarianship, many librarians feel additionally overwhelmed with the need to provide an even more complete instructional experience in the classroom. For the one shot, fifty-minute teaching sessions, the struggle seems to be between the teaching of process in doing research as opposed to teaching available sources and how to use them. This article proposes that the course instructor is the key figure in deciding what sources, objectives and competencies should be taught. Adapting the ...

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