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INSTRUCTION IN LIBRARIES:HISTORICAL OVERVIEWJuly 6, 2009
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Most ideas about teaching are not new,
but not everyone knows the old ideas.
~ Euclid, ca. 300 BC
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THE BIG PICTURE
pre-1850s 1960s 1990s-2000s
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COMMON THEMES
Section 52.6 Instruction in the use of libraries
“... [should be] one of the primary goals of service. Libraries of all types share the responsibility to educate users in successful information location, beginning with their childhood years and continuing the education process throughout their years of professional and personal growth.”
~ ALA Policy Manual, 1876
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EARLY CHAMPIONS OF USER EDUCATION
Justin Winsor , 1831-1897
The library as "the central agency in our college methods"
Image credit: Photograph by A.W. Elson & Co., in Wadlin, H. G. (1911). The public library of the city of Boston: A history. Boston: The Trustees (pp. 76-77). As found online: http://www.bpl.org/general/trustees/winsor.htm
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EARLY CHAMPIONS OF USER EDUCATION
Otis Hall Robinson, 1835-1912
“A librarian should be more than a keeper of books; he should be an educator,… [I]f we can send students out self-reliant in their investigations, we have accomplished very much.”
Image credit: Hayes, C. D. (1970). The history of the University of Rochester Libraries: 120 years. University of Rochester Library Bulletin, 25(3). http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=738
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OBJECTIVES FOR USER EDUCATION
Students need to "develop the art of discrimination" to be able to judge the value of books to develop critical judgment;
Students need to become independent learners--to teach themselves;
Students need to continue to read and study--to become lifelong learners.
~ Otis Hall Robinson, 1881
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THE BIG PICTURE … CONTINUED
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC INSTRUCTION MATURES
Evan Ira Farber, 1922-2009
“the library is not the heart of the college, the teaching-learning process is”
Image credit: People in the news (2009, April). College & Research Libraries News 72(4). http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2009/apr/people.cfm
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THE BIG PICTURE … CONTINUED
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INFORMATION LITERACY ARRIVES
“Information literacy has at its base the new communications and information technologies that are transforming society.”
~ Hannelore Rader (1992)
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NOT JUST ONE LITERACY…
Adapted from: Otis College of Art and Design. (n.d.). Information competency program. http://www.otis.edu/life_otis/library/information_literacy/information_competency.html
