The document discusses creating information literacy partnerships between academic librarians and faculty in higher education. It describes an academic librarian's presentation where she discussed promoting student learning through more proactive librarian roles, conducting action research with faculty, and obtaining feedback that faculty found value in open collaboration between librarians and instructors to benefit both student and faculty goals.

1. Creating information literacy partnerships in Higher Education
Clare McCluskey, Academic Support Librarian
LILAC, London, 20 April 2011
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2. Where am I?
Twitter @librarygirl79
Slideshare claremccluskey
E-mail c.mccluskey@yorksj.ac.uk
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3. How do we promote the learning?
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4. More than a book repository?
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6. Action research takes you in all sorts of
directions
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7. Reactive
“Finding out from us what
texts we need.”
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8. Supportive
“Anything I’ve felt I needed
support with, I could come
to you and ask.”
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9. Partner
“The key thing is that they
[the students] see our
joined up thinking.”
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10. “Previously I thought that librarians sat in the
library and ordered books…They were not
visible to tutors…I have been positively
enlightened by the more open approach…which
values tutors and students alike. I think it is
essential that this open collaboration
continues.”
Tutor D (One to one intervention)
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11. “It would be great to see how you will be
working with others too – might give me more
ideas of how we could do more together in my
programme.”
Tutor E (One to one intervention)
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12. “Because of our discussion I was able to see
the possibilities of a pedagogic research project
which would involve [Clare] achieving some of
her aims and me achieving some of mine.”
Tutor B (Group intervention)
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14. Screenshot of research blog (Kathy Ring)
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16. Where am I?
Twitter @librarygirl79
Slideshare claremccluskey
E-mail c.mccluskey@yorksj.ac.uk
York St John University | www.yorksj.ac.uk