Engaging Families in Public Libraries

Public libraries today are undergoing significant transformations as well as interacting with patrons in new and different ways (Knight Foundation 2017). Part of this transformation is the way libraries are engaging entire families. Libraries are playing a stronger role than ever before in supporting families to promote children’s early literacy and reading skills (Celano and Neuman 2015; Nagle et al. 2016; Neuman and Celano 2010), stimulating adult learning (Boden and Tashijan 2015), creating initiatives to improve family health (Morgan et al. 2016), providing services to families with extreme challenges such as those experiencing poverty, homelessness, food insecurity, and incarceration (Holt and Holt 2010; Terille 2016), as well as becoming spaces for families, especially those who are recent immigrants, to build new relationships and social networks (Khoir et al. 2017; Vårheim 2014). Despite these efforts, few studies have specifically sought to understand the organizational dimensions that support family engagement within a library system and the potential that these efforts have in promoting children’s learning not only in the early years, but also into and throughout middle childhood and adolescence. Based on a yearlong study investigating the power of family engagement in public libraries, this article considers how libraries can begin to adopt a systemic approach to family engagement to further innovate the library space.     

BiblioTech: Closing the Gap between Traditional and Digital Literacy

In 2013, Bexar County launched BiblioTech, the first all digital public library in the United States. BiblioTech capitalizes on technology to reach beyond the library walls and integrate the public library in facets of everyday life previously unavailable through paper and print. At its core, BiblioTech changes the traditional understanding of how libraries operate. BiblioTech’s digital model prompts a paradigm shift and challenges the library to seek out new ways to serve otherwise disengaged patron populations.

This article discusses the launch of BiblioTech---its impetus, mission, timeline, and challenges. The evolution of BiblioTech over its first four years of operation is presented, along with various community and intergovernmental partnerships that the library has forged in fulfillment of its mission. Finally, future opportunities and plans for development are also explored.     

基于ACRL《高等教育信息素养框架》的实践路径探讨——以南开大学图书馆为例

[目的/意义] 美国大学与研究图书馆协会（ACRL）2015年通过了《高等教育信息素养框架》,如何依据文件因地制宜地展开实践是高等学校图书馆和信息素养教育馆员关注的焦点。[方法/过程] 采用案例研究方法,研究南开大学图书馆信息素养教育团队根据ACRL《高等教育信息素养框架》开展的嵌入式信息素养教育活动,展示包括对文件内容的解读、可行性分析、与合作者开展实践教学和分享成果等从宏观到微观的一系列实践路径。[结果/结论] 提出实践《高等教育信息素养框架》必须要结合高校实际情况,确定适宜的教学内容和实践方式,注重与院系合作者的深入协作,现场教学中应通过分析学术情境引入“阈概念”等实施要点。     

Health Literacy's Influence on Consumer Libraries

Health literacy has been redefined in recent years to move beyond an individual’s own communication skills to include the skills of persons working within health care organizations, including librarians. Provision of consumer health services and resources, while a long-standing practice in hospital libraries, has also been redefined. As definitions of health literacy have evolved, so too have hospital librarian services as they embrace their role within health literacy. Many hospital medical and consumer health librarians have developed programs, services, and collaborations to further health literacy awareness, education, and initiatives for consumers, health care professionals, and their parent organizations.     

Maximizing and assessing a one-shot information literacy session: A case study

This case study describes collaboration between an instructor and business librarian to maximize a one-shot information literacy session for a required marketing class for business majors. It includes an active-learning exercise where groups use three key business databases to conduct a company and industry analysis and an environmental scan for a company. The instructor then guides them in developing a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT) analysis. This session prepares students for the SWOT analysis they will have to submit for their actual projects. This article includes assessment of groups' in-class exercises as well as citation analysis of the assignments they turned in for their actual projects.     

面向数字移民的公共图书馆联动服务模式研究——基于数字移民使用障碍及需求调研

[目的/意义]网络和数字化技术的快速发展不仅改变了公共图书馆的服务方式和内容载体,也改变了数字移民使用公共图书馆的方式。然而,现有文献在数字移民使用公共图书馆服务的需求和障碍方面的研究尚不充分,为本研究的开展提供了机会。[方法/过程]利用定性→定量的混合性研究方法,按照"发现问题→分析问题→解决问题"的路径,对数字移民使用公共图书馆服务存在的障碍、需求开展研究,进而提出应对模式。[结果/结论]研究结果表明目前数字移民存在的障碍更多来自于个人心理、态度等方面;其需求主要包括基础环境和设备、社群诉求、学习培训、数字产品使用、馆员服务及规章制度等。研究从4个着力点搭建公共图书馆联动服务模式,以期为公共图书馆服务的理论研究和实践活动提供借鉴,并为数字移民信息素养的培育提供新视角。     

Academic Subject Specialist and Special Librarians: Exploring a Shared Interest in Developing Information Literacy Skills

Academic librarians who work as subject specialists within a discipline and special librarians have a shared interest in information literacy instruction, despite differences in their library settings and culture. Collaboration between these parties would decrease the gap between information literacy skills developed in the classroom and in the workplace. Practical issues relating to collaboration, as well as a reviewed case study engage the dialogue surrounding this kind of partnership.     

个体数据素养评价体系及相关指标内涵研究进展

[目的/意义]在文献研究的基础上整理、分析现有数据素养评价体系及相关内涵,为数据素养的评价和教育工作提供理论参考。[方法/过程]通过收集和整理现有数据素养研究中对于数据素养的论述,综合其中关于数据素养的相关评价内容,结合数据素养教育的实际需求,构建数据素养评价体系并分析相关评价指标的内涵。[结果/结论]数据素养是对信息素养的继承和发展,是在大数据环境下发展起来的社会对个体素养的新要求,综合国内外数据素养相关研究成果,可用于数据素养评价的体系共包含数据意识、数据收集、数据管理、数据操作、数据伦理等12个指标内容。     

Flipping the Classroom in Freshman English Library Instruction: A Comparison Study of a Flipped Class Versus a Traditional Lecture Method

A problem that Instruction Librarians often grapple with is the lack of time that is necessary to deliver, and assess, proper library instruction to students so the students grasp the Information Literacy concepts that are delivered especially in one or two instruction sessions. This article examines using the flipped classroom model in English library instruction classes where the works cited page of students final paper was assessed according to a rubric designed to assess the Authority, Timeliness, and Variety of the sources cited. The study compared results of flipped classroom sections against traditional lecture method classes with mixed results.