Maximizing the One-Shot: Connecting Library Instruction with the Curriculum

by Jill Markgraf, Kate Hinnant, Eric Jennings, Hans Kishel

Overview

Designed for librarians who offer library instruction within the constraints of the hour-long one-shot, this book proposes a method for redesigning one-shot instruction that is both realistic and integrated into the larger curriculum.

Working with faculty teams from academic departments, the authors used the collaborative Lesson Study method to redesign undergraduate research instruction. They describe how to winnow the one-shot down to a manageable active learning experience while simultaneously augmenting it with extra-sessional prerequisites and learning activities. They also discuss how to conceptualize the role of the one-shot within a course, a curriculum, and the larger information literacy goals of the institution. This book offers customizable strategies, sample lesson plans, and generalized observations based on the experiences of the authors.

Maximizing the One-Shot: Connecting Library Instruction with the Curriculum covers the following aspects of one-shot development:

• Understanding the role of the one-shot institutionally and its limits.
• Setting realistic goals.
• The Lesson Study approach.
• Collaborating with departmental faculty.
• Assessment of the one-shot.
• Supporting the one-shot with additional materials.
• Expanding one-shot development to other departments and programs.

In addition, the book provides interviews with collaborating faculty members of academic departments who have partnered with library faculty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442238671
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/08/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	188
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Jill Markgraf,professor and Head of Research and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, has published and presented in the areas of library instruction, faculty collaboration and distance education. She has worked and taught in academic libraries for more than 20 years.

Kate Hinnant, assistant professor, is a research and instruction librarian for the Business School at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. In addition to working on the first “One-Shot” redesign, she also developed the supplementary research instruction and online lessons for the Blugold Seminar in Critical Reading & Writing.

Eric Jennings, associate professor, is an instruction and outreach librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He has presented and published on integrating information literacy into the curriculum and on outreach activities within academic libraries.

Hans Kishel, associate professor, is a research and instruction librarian for the sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He has presented and published in the areas of active learning and integrated information literacy instruction for many years. He is also a published game designer.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Confronting the One-Shot: Seeing the Limitations
Chapter 2: Getting Real About the One-Shot
Chapter 3: Having Conversations: Beginning the Lesson Study Approach
Chapter 4: Implementing the New One-Shot
Chapter 5: Expanding the Process: The Lesson Study in Other Disciplines
Chapter 6: Supplementing the One-Shot
Chapter 7: The Benefits and Challenges of Collaboration
Chapter 8: Organizational Considerations
Chapter 9: Fine-Tuning the One-Shot
Chapter 10: Interviewing the “Others”: What the Disciplinary Faculty Said
Conclusion
Appendixes
About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

This book is a case study of how university librarians collaborated with faculty to integrate information literacy instruction in a selected curriculum. The authors address the challenges of institutional reality, instructing students, and collaborating with faculty. They initially developed lessons for students in composition classes; their approach was expanded for science and nursing classes. The narrative explains lesson goals, planning processes, lesson activities, helping faculty understand the importance, scaffolding, and assessment. Selected worksheets, research guides, and less on study outlines are featured. The information will be helpful to high school and post-secondary librarians implementing a similar program.

School Library Connection

Given that most teaching librarians spend most of their time teaching one-shot sessions, it is refreshing to read a book that wholeheartedly embraces the challenge of making those sessions better. What I like about the lesson study approach outlined in Maximizing the One-Shot is that it provides a framework where librarians can use what they already know about instructional design and assessment to build deep collaborative relationships that make everyone – teaching librarians and classroom teachers alike – better at teaching research. While the lesson study may seem to be about improving the lesson, it’s really about improving ourselves as teachers – equipping classroom faculty and teaching librarians alike with new ways to make research instruction relevant, effective, and useful to students.

Anne-Marie Deitering

The one-shot session is a staple of academic librarianship instruction practice. Though the one-shot is often bemoaned for its limitations, these authors provide a re-framing of that perspective and demonstrate its true potential for transformation and impact through their thoughtful Lesson Study approach. Highly recommended for all academic libraries!

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

[A] newer librarian-instructor or a library school student may find the pragmatic approach of this book, with its reliance on real-world tools rather than esoteric teaching ideologies, to be very helpful. Also, it is refreshing to read a book that does not follow the prevailing criticism of the one-shot as an abomination of instruction.. . .This book is recommended as a good teaching book for a library school program or a tool for a beginning instructor. Even veteran instructors will find this a refreshing take on an old topic and might also find the Lesson Study outlines at the end of the book useful in designing a new course or modifying an existing one.

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

As librarians are pressed to make a bigger impact on student learning without the staff or curriculum support for credit-courses, this book shows the value of collaboration, assessment, and scaffolding of library instruction within a credit-course. It offers inspiration and a pathway for librarians and faculty who are seeking to improve student research in a higher education setting.

Kate L. Ganski