Scholarship

This page automatically compiles new writing from CUNY Academic Works related to the topic of information literacy. Follow the link to discover more writing, or see the most recent published work below. This page is connected to an RSS feed which automatically pulls new information literacy scholarship from Academic Works.

As a part of our Information Literacy Fellowship, we have also developed our Information Literacy Literature Review, which provides a synthesis of scholarship written by CUNY researchers since 2018. Also, please check out the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy for new writings on the broader subject of OER, open pedagogy, and information literacy!

• Not Meant to Be Read: The Stories They Silence, the Resistance That Speaks
  In this dissertation, I trace the evolution of surveillance from overt state violence to the more insidious forms of ideological policing embedded in everyday life. Through lived experience, oral history, and critical autoethnography, I explore how surveillance moves through bodies, families, institutions, and memory—not simply as external control, but as internalized rhythms of fear, vigilance, […]
• Building a Professional Learning Community to Improve Technical Services Librarians’ Teaching Preparedness: Assess, Act and Reflect
  This action research was conducted to address the gap between having all librarians prepared to teach and technical services librarians’ unpreparedness to teach in a university library system. The implemented intervention was developing a professional learning community among technical services librarians with a variety of teaching experiences to improve teaching preparedness by sharing, discussing, and […]
• Artificial Intelligence in the Library: Assessing Chatbots and ChatGPT Presentation
  In Spring 2023, the Leonard Lief Library at Lehman College (CUNY) conducted an assessment of its library chatbot which uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT API with the goal of improving its functionality and performance. This presentation highlights the assessment’s findings, including types of questions asked, and areas where the chatbot succeeds and where it struggles. Additionally, the […]
• Digital Literacy Activities
  In an increasingly technological-focused environment, it is paramount that library instructors infuse digital literacy skills into their teaching. Librarians as information professionals are in a prime position to impart digital literacy skills into patrons. This not only creates a more exciting lesson plan but also has the potential to teach students necessary digital literacy skills […]
• Creating an Interpretive Edition of "Sage and Spirit"
  This paper reports on a practice-based research project designed to create a critically edited score of Bob Weir’s Sage and Spirit for solo guitar. Since no score exists for the piece, potential performers must first go through the time-consuming process of transcription as a way to learn how it works. This may deter potential performers […]