Transferring Skills,Transferring Students: A Call To Academic Libraries |
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| Authors: | John C Phillips Thomas A Atwood |
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| Institution: | William S. Carlson Library , The University of Toledo , Toledo, Ohio, USA |
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| Abstract: | The growing number of transfer students on college and university campuses presents a challenge to academic libraries. For years, these libraries have taught students information literacy skills to enhance their abilities to locate, evaluate, and use information in order to be successful students as well as lifelong learners. At many libraries, both direct from high school and transfer students are taught these skills together, without the recognition that either of them has special or diverse needs. Several studies over the years have concluded that the information needs of transfer students differed from those of their native counterparts and stress the importance for separate instruction. A recent survey of some Ohio academic libraries by the authors revealed that the vast majority of these libraries do not provide separate instruction for transfer students. This article, therefore, calls for a dialogue among librarians to continue to discuss this topic and consider developing instructional programs to meet the needs of transfer students. |
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| Keywords: | Academic libraries information literacy library cooperation student mobility transfer students |
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