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Learning More About How They Think: Information Literacy Instruction in a Campus-wide Critical Thinking Project

Johnson, Corey M.; Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley; Walter, Scott (Haworth Press, 2008)

Critical thinking and information literacy are strongly connected. At Washington State University, librarians have been involved with first-year experience programs and with a grant-funded critical thinking project that ...

Qualitative Assessment of Student Attitudes toward Information Literacy

Scales, B. Jane; Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (2005)

Many distance degree students at Washington State University enroll in General Education 300, a one-credit information literacy course taught online by librarians that exposes students to activities and materials that ...

Tangled Tango: The Challenges of Translating Culture

Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (10/3/2009)

This paper explores the issue of translating cultural references, particularly the case of Suzanne Jill Levine's translation or transformation of Manuel Puig's Boquitas pintadas into her Heartbreak Tango.

The Best of Both Worlds: Teaching a Hybrid Course

Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2004)

While online education alone has strengths and weaknesses, the benefits of online learning can be used to enhance face-to-face teaching. This article will discuss an example of capitalizing on the strengths of online courses ...

The Constraints of Practice, or We Work in Libraries, That's Why We Can't Do Research

Blakesley, Elizabeth (2016)

Why We Do What We Do: Exploring Priorities within Public Services Librarianship

Johnson, Corey M.; Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley (portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006-07)

Public services librarians perform an increasingly diverse set of duties, and this study explores which job components are most important to librarians. The researchers surveyed public services librarians at ARL libraries ...