Building a Community of Practice Around Information Literacy by Design: A Case Study at UNC-Chapel Hill's Undergraduate Library

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Dimmit, Laura
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • A gap currently exists between the level of instructional training needed for public service librarians to succeed, and the level being provided by employers and LIS programs. Communities of practice (CoPs), as described by Lave and Wenger, provide a sustainable, practice-centered model for instructors of all experience and skill levels to grow individually while supporting each other. This paper documents the analysis of redesigned instructional training for the instruction team at UNC-Chapel Hill's Undergraduate Library (UL), centered around Information Literacy by Design (ILbD). Interviews with instruction team members are coded to track indicators of CoPs, which reveal key trends involving peer relationships, self-efficacy, and ways of learning. The redesigned training is revealed to have influenced the development of a community of practice among the UL instruction team.
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  • McMichael, Jonathan
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  • Master of Science in Library Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 62
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