Reimagining Library Services: The Ongoing Challenge for Academic Libraries to Adapt Information Literacy Skills Instruction to Today’s Student Learners

Type of Presentation

Poster Session (45 minutes)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Proposal

Has the state of America’s higher education students’ information literacy turned into a reduced version of what it once was? Knowledge and information literacy skills are vital attributes for students to possess to successfully compete in the modern hyper-technology driven environment; yet, some academic libraries and their staffs are increasingly encountering new student learners with lower levels of literacy skills. If that is the case, what factors have contributed to this situation? If student learners are lacking in basic literacy skills, how does that impact the higher education library’s role in teaching information literacy? To remain relevant to their patron bases, libraries have had to adjust the methods that are used to communicate with their modern users. Methods that were previously used to provide library services have had to be updated to reflect the changing needs and the skill-sets of their current student populations. What has been done to help alleviate this problem and what else can we do to? Join us for this engaging presentation and conversation as we discuss how academic libraries are transforming themselves to meet the ever-changing landscape for today’s student information seekers.

Presentation Description

Has the state of America’s higher education students’ information literacy turned into a reduced version of what it once was? If student learners are lacking in basic literacy skills, how does that impact the higher education library’s role in teaching information literacy? To remain relevant, libraries have had to transform. Methods that were previously used to provide library services have had to be updated to meet the changing needs and to reflect the skill-sets of their current student information seekers.

Session Goals

1. To introduce providing literacy skills instruction to today’s student learners and broaden the knowledge about the challenges faced by academic libraries.

2. To provide a visually attractive poster presentation and representation of anecdotal and scholarly findings -- about literacy instruction issues facing academic librarians and their staffs.

Keywords

Academic Libraries, Literacy Skills Instruction, Challenges

Publication Type and Release Option

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Reimagining Library Services: The Ongoing Challenge for Academic Libraries to Adapt Information Literacy Skills Instruction to Today’s Student Learners

Has the state of America’s higher education students’ information literacy turned into a reduced version of what it once was? Knowledge and information literacy skills are vital attributes for students to possess to successfully compete in the modern hyper-technology driven environment; yet, some academic libraries and their staffs are increasingly encountering new student learners with lower levels of literacy skills. If that is the case, what factors have contributed to this situation? If student learners are lacking in basic literacy skills, how does that impact the higher education library’s role in teaching information literacy? To remain relevant to their patron bases, libraries have had to adjust the methods that are used to communicate with their modern users. Methods that were previously used to provide library services have had to be updated to reflect the changing needs and the skill-sets of their current student populations. What has been done to help alleviate this problem and what else can we do to? Join us for this engaging presentation and conversation as we discuss how academic libraries are transforming themselves to meet the ever-changing landscape for today’s student information seekers.