Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson

Bravender, Patricia; McClure, Hazel; Schaub, Gayle

ISBN 10: 0838987710 / ISBN 13: 9780838987711

Published by Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson
• Publisher: Assoc of College & Research Libraries
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838987710
• ISBN 13: 9780838987711
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: like_new

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Synopsis

Editors Bravender, McClure, and Schaub present students, academics, and education professionals with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles focused on the empowerment of teaching librarians. The editors have organized the contributions that make up the main body of the text in six chapters devoted to scholarship as conversation, research as inquiry, authority is constructed and contextual, information creation as a process, searching as strategic exploration, and the value of information. Patricia Bravender, Hazel McClure, and Gayle Schaub are faculty members of the Grand Valley State University libraries. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

About the Author

Gayle Schaub is the liaison librarian to the Art and Design, Modern Languages, and Psychology departments at Grand Valley State University Libraries. She holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the American University in Cairo. Gayle s other research interests include library services to international students and information literacy in K-12 education.

Hazel McClure is the liaison librarian to English, Writing, and Environmental Studies at Grand Valley State University. She holds an MFA from Saint Mary s College of California and an MLS from State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research interests are collaboration with disciplinary faculty, threshold concepts, and poetry publishing models.

Patricia Bravender is a professional programs librarian and liaison to Legal Studies, Criminal Justice, and Hospitality and Tourism Management at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the School of Criminal Justice at GVSU where she supervises the internship programs in legal studies. She holds an MLIS from Wayne State University. In addition to threshold concepts, her research interests are information privacy and censorship.