Within scholarly and professional LIS literature, researchers and practitioners have applied the language, theory, and practices of stage performance to the context of academic library instruction. Recognizing the power of discourse in shaping professional norms and values, I wonder: How might the widespread presence of performance-based approaches to library instruction impact assumptions and expectations of those librarians who provide it? To better identify, interrogate, and imagine the implications of this discourse, this article first provides a review of the scholarship that has contributed to and resisted the phenomenon of library-instruction-as-performance, drawing upon the work of researchers who have engaged with theatrical, drama...
Despite the constant, if not escalating, need for professional development within the library workfo...
This essay considers the institutionalization of critical library instruction in the decade since th...
As academic librarians, we prescribe an intellectual framework to students by referring to the ‘fami...
The author uses personal observations as inspiration to examine what has been written in scholarly l...
First impressions matter. Instruction librarians face unfamiliar audiences who can be apathetic or e...
In this article, the commonalities shared by educators and stage performers will be examined, with a...
Library instruction is like a theatre performance. You play a role as the instruction librarian. The...
In this paper, we argue that the crisis of teaching can be understood as a crisis of labour that con...
Historically, scholarship in library and information studies has primarily followed the “traditional...
Approaching the practice of reading from an institutional and professional perspective, this paper s...
In academic libraries, library instruction often takes the form of one-shot instruction and is not a...
Objective – To explore the ways that professional and non-professional library staff experience and ...
The promise of libraries to educate the citizenry has long been a purpose of the library as an insti...
This master’s thesis concerns the performance of professional children’s theatre in public libraries...
International audienceApproaching the practice of reading from an institutional and professional per...
Despite the constant, if not escalating, need for professional development within the library workfo...
This essay considers the institutionalization of critical library instruction in the decade since th...
As academic librarians, we prescribe an intellectual framework to students by referring to the ‘fami...
The author uses personal observations as inspiration to examine what has been written in scholarly l...
First impressions matter. Instruction librarians face unfamiliar audiences who can be apathetic or e...
In this article, the commonalities shared by educators and stage performers will be examined, with a...
Library instruction is like a theatre performance. You play a role as the instruction librarian. The...
In this paper, we argue that the crisis of teaching can be understood as a crisis of labour that con...
Historically, scholarship in library and information studies has primarily followed the “traditional...
Approaching the practice of reading from an institutional and professional perspective, this paper s...
In academic libraries, library instruction often takes the form of one-shot instruction and is not a...
Objective – To explore the ways that professional and non-professional library staff experience and ...
The promise of libraries to educate the citizenry has long been a purpose of the library as an insti...
This master’s thesis concerns the performance of professional children’s theatre in public libraries...
International audienceApproaching the practice of reading from an institutional and professional per...
Despite the constant, if not escalating, need for professional development within the library workfo...
This essay considers the institutionalization of critical library instruction in the decade since th...
As academic librarians, we prescribe an intellectual framework to students by referring to the ‘fami...