1. I NSTRUCTION IN L IBRARIES : H ISTORICAL O VERVIEW July 6, 2009 1 UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell

2. 2 Most ideas about teaching are not new, but not everyone knows the old ideas. ~ Euclid, ca. 300 BC

3. UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell T HE B IG P ICTURE pre- 1850s 1850s- 1950s 1960s 1970s- 1980s 1990s- 2000s 3

4. UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell C OMMON T HEMES 4 Section 52.6 Instruction in the use of libraries “... [should be] one of the primary goals of service. Libraries of all types share the responsibility to educate users in successful information location, beginning with their childhood years and continuing the education process throughout their years of professional and personal growth.” ~ ALA Policy Manual, 1876

5. UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell E ARLY C HAMPIONS OF U SER E DUCATION 5 Justin Winsor, 1831-1897 The library as "the central agency in our college methods" Image credit : Photograph by A.W. Elson & Co., in Wadlin, H. G. (1911). The public library of the city of Boston: A history. Boston: The Trustees (pp. 76-77). As found online: http://www.bpl.org/general/trustees/winsor.htm

6. UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell E ARLY C HAMPIONS OF U SER E DUCATION 6 Otis Hall Robinson, 1835-1912 “A librarian should be more than a keeper of books; he should be an educator,… [I]f we can send students out self-reliant in their investigations, we have accomplished very much.” Image credit : Hayes, C. D. (1970). The history of the University of Rochester Libraries: 120 years. University of Rochester Library Bulletin, 25 (3). http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=738

7. UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell O BJECTIVES FOR U SER E DUCATION Students need to "develop the art of discrimination" to be able to judge the value of books to develop critical judgment; Students need to become independent learners--to teach themselves; Students need to continue to read and study-- to become lifelong learners. ~ Otis Hall Robinson, 1881 7

8. UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell T HE B IG P ICTURE … CONTINUED pre- 1850s 1850s- 1950s 1960s 1970s- 1980s 1990s- 2000s 8

9. UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell B IBLIOGRAPHIC I NSTRUCTION M ATURES 9 Evan Ira Farber, 1922-2009 “the library is not the heart of the college, the teaching-learning process is” Image credit : People in the news (2009, April). College & Research Libraries News 72 (4). http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2009/apr/people.cfm

10. UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell T HE B IG P ICTURE … CONTINUED pre- 1850s 1850s- 1950s 1960s 1970s- 1980s 1990s- 2000s 10

11. UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell I NFORMATION L ITERACY A RRIVES 11 “Information literacy has at its base the new communications and information technologies that are transforming society.” ~ Hannelore Rader (1992)

12. UBC SLAIS - LIBR 535 Summer 2009 | Instructor: Colleen Bell N OT J UST O NE L ITERACY … 12 Adapted from: Otis College of Art and Design. (n.d.). Information competency program. http://www.otis.edu/life_otis/library/information_literacy/information_competency.html