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- Title
They CAN and They SHOULD: Undergraduates Providing Peer Reference and Instruction.
- Authors
Bodemer, Brett B.
- Abstract
Peer learning dynamics have proven powerful in collegiate contexts. These dynamics should be leveraged at the undergraduate level in academic libraries for reference provision and basic information literacy instruction. Drawing on the literature of peer learning, documented examples of peer reference and instruction in academic libraries, and preliminary evidence from current practice at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, this article provides support from the pedagogical standpoint that undergraduates not only can provide peer reference and instruction, but should. The relevance to other institutions and additional assessment methods for establishing the efficacy of peer instruction are also discussed.
- Subjects
LIBRARIES &; students; PEER teaching; REFERENCE services in academic libraries; INFORMATION literacy education; ROBERT E. Kennedy Library; CALIFORNIA Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; UNDERGRADUATES
- Publication
College & Research Libraries, 2014, Vol 75, Issue 2, p162
- ISSN
0010-0870
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.5860/crl12-411