Open Access“She Has a Vocabulary I Just Don’t Have”: Faculty Culture and Information Literacy Collaboration
Author(s) -
Carolyn Caffrey Gardner,
Jamie White-Farnham
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
collaborative librarianship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1943-7528
DOI - 10.29087/2013.5.4.05
Subject(s) - information literacy , literacy , vocabulary , resistance (ecology) , identity (music) , frame (networking) , pedagogy , sociology , psychology , computer science , linguistics , art , ecology , philosophy , telecommunications , biology , aesthetics
The authors describe difficulties pertaining to discipline-specific discourse and identity among collaborators during the process of revising the information literacy component of a first-year writing program. Hardesty’s term “faculty culture” offers a frame through which to understand resistance and tension among otherwise engaged faculty and situates this experience within the uncomfortable history between faculty and librarians who may be perceived as “inauthentic” faculty. The authors suggest ways to improve communication between librarians and writing program faculty when collaborating on information literacy instruction.