Expert Teams in the Academic Library: Going Beyond Subject Expertise to Create Scaffolded Instruction

This article explores the way librarians define, leverage, and amplify expertise in a twenty-first century academic library. An expert team comprised of a nursing librarian, online learning librarian, information-literacy librarian, and assessment librarian sorted the learning outcomes from the Info...

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Published inJournal of library administration Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 313 - 333
Main Authors Wissinger, Christina L., Raish, Victoria, Miller, Rebecca K., Borrelli, Steve
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Taylor & Francis Ltd 19.05.2018
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Academic libraries
Information literacy
Librarians
User training
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Summary:This article explores the way librarians define, leverage, and amplify expertise in a twenty-first century academic library. An expert team comprised of a nursing librarian, online learning librarian, information-literacy librarian, and assessment librarian sorted the learning outcomes from the Information-Literacy Competency Standards for Nursing created by the Health Sciences Interest Group taskforce of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) by grade-levels. Results found distinguishing experts within a library supports the customization of scaffolded instruction. Additionally, using expert teams in academic libraries supports the larger mission of universities to integrate libraries into teaching and research.
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ISSN:0193-0826
1540-3564
DOI:10.1080/01930826.2018.1448648