Critical thinking within the library program

While academic librarians frequently discuss critical thinking and its relationship to information literacy, the literature does not contain an abundance of sources on the topic. Therefore, this works provides a current and timely perspective on the possible roles of critical thinking within the library program. The work contains a variety of approaches likely to benefit the practicing librarian. It begins with a review of the literature, followed by theoretical approaches involving constructivism and the Socratic method. Readers will find pieces on the integration of critical thinking into the first-year experience and course-specific case studies, as well as a selection on a campus-wide critical thinking project. In each of the pieces, librarians are exploring new ways to meet their instructional goals, including the goal of teaching critical thinking skills to students across the curriculum.

This book was originally published as a special issue of College & Undergraduate Libraries.

• Introduction p. 1
• 1 The Evolution of Critical Thinking Skills in Library Instruction, 1986-2006: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography and Review of selected Programs p. 4 Erin L. Ellis and Kara M. Whatley
• 2 Promoting Critical Thinking Skills in Online Information Literacy Instruction Using a Constructivist Approach p. 20 Maryellen Allen
• 3 Finding a Socratic Method for Information Literacy Instruction p. 38 Nicholas Schiller
• 4 Step by Step through the Scholarly Conversation: A Collaborative Library/Writing Faculty Project to Embed Information Literacy and Promote Critical Thinking in First Year Composition at Oregon State University p. 56 Anne-Marie Deitering and Sara Jameson
• 5 Advancing Critical Thinking and Information Literacy Skills in First Year College Students p. 79 Mark Alfino and Michele Pajer and Linda Pierce and Kelly O'Brien Jenks
• 6 Modeling Scholarly Inquiry: One Article at a Time p. 97 Anne Marie Grubes and Mary Anne Knefel and Paul Waelchli
• 7 Critical Thinking is a Life Relevancy: A Hospitality Management Student Case Study p. 124 Monica Berger
• 8 Information Literacy in Subject-Specific Vocabularies: A Path to Critical Thinking p. 138 Linda Heichman Taylor
• 9 Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Teach Criticial Thinking Skills to Business Students p. 156 Nancy Nentl and Ruth Zietlow
• 10 You Can Lead Students to Sources, but Can You Make Them Think? p. 170 Pamela Hayes-Bohanan and Elizabeth Spievak
• 11 We Won't Be Fooled Again: Teaching Critical Thinking via Evaluation of Hoax and Historical Revisionist Websites in a Library Credit Course p. 208 Stephaine M. Mathson and Michael G. Lorenzen
• 12 Learing More About How They Think: Infromation Literacy Instruction in a Campus-Wide Critical Thinking Project p. 228 Corey M. Johnson and Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay and Scott Walter
• Index p. 253