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Title: Engaging Graduate Medical and Health Sciences Students in Scholarly Communication: The Des Moines University Library’s Research & Scholarly Communication Peer Associate Program.
Description: This piece introduces the Des Moines University Library’s Research and Scholarly Communication Peer Associate Program, focusing on the curriculum of a five-day summer institute developed for graduate medical and health sciences students and rooted in a critical information literacy framework. The authors outline the institute’s philosophy and approach and provide readers with key content areas, materials, activities, and homework prompts. Initial program assessment is discussed, and the authors share their thoughts on how the program might continue to evolve to meet the changing needs of students. The article concludes with reflections from two peer associates who participated in the program during the 2022–2023 academic year.
Date Created: 2023
PID: grinnell:35390

Title: Making a Good Thing Better: Increasing Demand for 1-on-1 Information Literacy Instruction at Grinnell College, Increasing Demand for 1-on-1 Information Literacy Instruction at Grinnell College
Description: Learn why Grinnell College Libraries enjoyed a 60% increase in the number of Library Labs, our customized research appointments, during fall 2011.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:68

Title: Scholarly Communication and Liberal Arts College Libraries
Description: Scholarly communication, in addition to referring to the disciplinary practices that structure the dissemination of scholarly knowledge, has become shorthand for two meanings: on the one hand, it refers to an analytic "author/reader" framework that seeks critical understanding of the entire life cycle of scholarly knowledge and the connected roles of researchers, teachers, students, funders, libraries, publishers, and other kinds of agencies in the creation, dissemination, critique, reuse, and preservation of knowledge.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:5075

Title: Student-Centered, Student-Delivered: Leading with Equity and Inclusion through a First-Year Library Ambassador Program at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
Description: This case study highlights the evolution of the Pfau Library Ambassador program from its inception to its current model. Beginning as a small initiative within the California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) John M. Pfau Library, the LAI program has grown into a student-centered campus partnership with the Office of Undergraduate Studies' Student Mentoring Program (SMP) and continues to reach an increasing number of first-year students.
Date Created: 2023
PID: grinnell:34350

Title: The Critical Information Literacy Leadership Institute as Alternative to the One-Shot: Q & A with a Faculty Partner
Description: In spring 2021, the Pfau Library and Teaching Resource Center (TRC) at California State University, San Bernardino developed a virtual Critical Information Literacy Leadership Institute, which was meant to introduce the foundations and pedagogical applications of critical information literacy (CIL) so departmental faculty could teach it and advocate for its integration across campus. The institute was a new approach to faculty development at the Pfau Library, as it engaged a multidisciplinary team and incorporated leadership and advocacy training. Though some library-led workshops and activities had been co-sponsored by outside units, they had never been developed and led by faculty or campus leaders other than librarians. Such an approach asks that librarians give up, to a certain extent, 'control' over CIL on their campuses. While this might be uncomfortable for those who are understandably concerned about sharing their already miniscule institutional space and power with others, participants can benefit from a collaborative approach that leverages the strengths and experiences of those who are invested in CIL but 'live' outside the library. And because Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, a librarian, was an institute co-lead, participants still understood her -- and by extension, her colleagues in the library -- to be knowledgeable resources on all things CIL. Below, Monideepa Becerra, professor of public health and then-TRC director, addresses questions to expand on the initiative, illustrating how such an approach can serve as a viable alternative to the one-shot model of library instruction and can allow for the 'deeper learning, critical thinking, and inclusive pedagogy' that Nicole Pagowsky argues the one-shot can elude.
Date Created: 2022
PID: grinnell:34349