Notes From the Field: 10 Short Lessons on One-Shot Instruction

Authors

Megan Oakleaf, Syracuse UniversityFollow
Steven Hoover, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Beth S. Woodard, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignFollow
Jennifer Corbin, Tulane UniversityFollow
Randy Hensley, Baruch CollegeFollow
Diana K. Wakimoto, San Jose State University
Christopher V, Hollister, University at BuffaloFollow
Debra Gilchrist, Pierce CollegeFollow
Michelle Millet, John Carroll UniversityFollow
Patricia A. Iannuzzi, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2012

Publication Title

Communications in Information Literacy

Volume

6

Issue

1

First page number:

5

Last page number:

23

Abstract

Librarians teach. It might not be what we planned to do when we entered the profession, or it may have been our secret hope all along. Either way, we teach. We teach users of all types, including students, faculty, and our co-workers. We teach in multiple venues including classrooms, reference desks, face-to-face, and online. While the variety of teaching audiences and environments are endless, one teaching scenario remains quintessential: the one-shot library instruction session. No one knows better than librarians the limitations of this format, yet it remains central to our teaching efforts.

Keywords

Information literacy; Library orientation; Teaching

Disciplines

Curriculum and Instruction | Educational Methods | Information Literacy | Library and Information Science

Language

English

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License

Repository Citation

Oakleaf, M., Hoover, S., Woodard, B. S., Corbin, J., Hensley, R., Wakimoto, D. K., Hollister, C. V., Gilchrist, D., Millet, M., Iannuzzi, P. A. (2012). Notes From the Field: 10 Short Lessons on One-Shot Instruction. Communications in Information Literacy, 6(1), 5-23.
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