Written by: Emilia Marcyk
Primary Source: Information Literacy Resources
I always come back from conferences with a list of books to read, and this year’s LOEX conference was particularly fruitful in that regard. For anyone interested in some of the works that are informing the thinking of instruction librarians, here is a (most definitely incomplete) list of books and articles I heard mentioned:*
- Grant Wiggins: “The Case for Authentic Assessment”
- Donald A. Schön The Reflective Practitioner
- Stephen Brookfield: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
- Alison James and Stephen Brookfield: Engaging Imagination
- Megan Boler: Feeling Power: Emotions in Education
- L. Dee Fink: Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses
- Susan A. Ambrose, et al: How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching
- James R. Davis and Bridget Arend: Facilitating Seven Ways of Learning: A Resource for More Purposeful, Effective, and Enjoyable College Teaching
- Scott Freeman, et al: “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics” in PNAS (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319030111)
- bell hooks: Teaching to Transgress
- Maria T. Accardi, Emily Drabinski, and Alana Kumbier: Critical Library Instruction
- Maria T. Accardi: Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction
- Ann Wennerstrom: Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom v.2
*Linked to the MSU catalog/databases where possible.
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Emilia Marcyk is an Instructional Technology & Information Literacy Librarian at the MSU Libraries, where she develops instructional content, leads information literacy sessions for the First Year Writing program, and works at the reference desk. She is especially interested in developing new tools and strategies to help undergraduate students acquire information literacy skills, especially as they transition from high school to college. She received her MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her BA from Bryn Mawr College. In addition to her work in libraries, Emilia has been an environmental educator in Portland, OR, and Philadelphia, PA.

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