An Analysis of the Literature on Instruction in Academic Libraries

Highly cited articles in library and information science: An analysis of content and authorship trends

“…For instance, Crawford and Feldt cover a large time span , but focus solely on works about instruction in academic libraries, and there is no examination of the bibliographies of the works in this study. (Crawford & Feldt, 2007) A special section in the journal Library Administration & Management identifies required reading for library administrators, with a two-part list, one dealing with management works that are highly cited in LIS papers published between 1987 and 2000 but are not themselves part of the LIS literature (Required reading for library administrators: An annotated bibliography of influential authors and their works, 2002) and the other with highly cited management works published in this time period that can be considered part of the LIS literature Required reading for library administrators, Part two: An annotated bibliography of highly cited library and information science authors and their works (2003)). This project does go into second-level research, using as its primary focus the bibliographies of articles culled from the LIS literature.…”

The Journal Literature of Business Librarianship

“…In comparison, in a study of the academic library journals, College & Research Libraries and The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Crawford (1999) found that almost sixty percent of the main articles, excluding columns and book reviews, were research articles. In a study of the literature of instruction, Crawford and Kubiske (2007) found that 24.5 percent of the identified articles could be classed as researchbased. Examining librarianship in general, Koufogiannakis, Slater, and Crumley (2004) found that 30.3 percent of articles could be classified as research.…”

“…Such analyses have been done in other fields within librarianship, for example, in library instruction (Crawford & Kubiske, 2007), academic librarianship (Crawford, 1999), or even librarianship as a whole (Koufogiannakis, Slater, and Crumley, 2004). Thus, the literature of business librarianship seems ripe for examination.…”

“Easier, Less Stressful, and Better Results”: Sociology and Criminal Justice Majors’ Experience of Library Research before and after Library Instruction

“…Within the library profession, scholarship on information literacy instruction and assessment is abundant (e.g., Crawford and Feldt 2007; Erlinger 2018; Rader 2002; Sobel and Sugimoto 2012; Stevens 2006; VanScoy and Fontana 2016). The consensus of much of the literature on undergraduate information literacy is that “student learning is enhanced when faculty and librarians work together” (Junisbai et al 2016:6).…”