What is it about?
This study investigates whether the platform used to deliver a tutorial matters in online information literacy instruction and assesses the overall quality of an information literacy tutorial assignment given to an undergraduate survey class. The study asks whether there is any pedagogical advantage between information literacy tutorials created in the LibGuides library guide creation software and tutorials created as Web pages.
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Why is it important?
This research question is relevant to current studies of online information literacy tutorials, particularly given the increasingly dominant but under-researched position of LibGuides in the academic library world for delivering guides and tutorials.
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Survey results indicated that both the LibGuides and Web page platforms deliver online instruction content and achieve learning objectives almost equally well. While LibGuides offers a definite technological advance for librarians (instead of learning to design, build, host, and maintain individual webpages), it did not appear to offer any pedagogical advantage for content presented in LibGuides vs. another Web platform. This finding calls into question of why LibGuides has become such a supposedly indispensable resource for contemporary academic libraries.
Aaron Bowen
Wichita State University
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This page is a summary of: LibGuides and Web-Based Library Guides in Comparison: Is There a Pedagogical Advantage?, Journal of Web Librarianship, April 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/19322909.2014.903709.
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