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Evolution of Library Instruction: Past and Present Perspectives

Explore the history and importance of library instruction from ancient times to modern concepts like information literacy. Learn how early champions emphasized the role of libraries in educating users and developing critical thinking skills.

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Evolution of Library Instruction: Past and Present Perspectives

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  1. Instruction in Libraries:Historical Overview UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell July 6, 2009

  2. Most ideas about teaching are not new, but not everyone knows the old ideas. ~ Euclid, ca. 300 BC UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell

  3. The Big Picture UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell

  4. 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 UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell

  5. Early Champions of User Education Justin Winsor , 1831-1897 UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell 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

  6. Early Champions of User Education Otis Hall Robinson, 1835-1912 UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell “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

  7. 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 UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell

  8. The Big Picture … continued UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell

  9. Bibliographic Instruction Matures Evan Ira Farber, 1922-2009 UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell “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

  10. The Big Picture … continued UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell

  11. Information Literacy Arrives “Information literacy has at its base the new communications and information technologies that are transforming society.” ~ Hannelore Rader (1992) UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell

  12. Not Just One Literacy… UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell 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

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