Abstract
This book offers several structures for engaging music students as reflective and engaged participants in today's complex information environments. This rich time of change brings renewed interest in information literacy instruction and developing new skill sets for the shifting paradigms in librarianship, as recent educational reform movement shifts information literacy away from competency standards to a more complex set of core concepts associated with metaliteracy and cognition. This transformed world requires library environments to be inclusive with the resulting cultural evolution prompting a re-examination of how best to serve a population that represents diversity of all kinds: sexual, political, disabilities, national origin, socioeconomic, religion, linguistic, body size, age, and other dimensions. The first step to a successful information literacy program is creating a welcoming and supportive environment for the students, staff, and faculty being served. This book offers expert guidance on planning and implementing information literacy instruction programs in a wide range of instructional situations and theoretical frameworks, including: course-related instruction using the ACRL Framework; lesson study, a process in which teachers jointly plan, observe, analyze, and refine information literacy strategies; active learning concepts to teach the student performer; embedded librarian techniques to facilitate music information literacy; utilizing technology-based audience response system and digital primary sources; peer instruction in the classroom and outreach settings; creative collaborations with partners such as an audio engineer; and career workshops for music students and the incorporation of information literacy and more. As music and performing arts librarians revisit information literacy instruction, this essential book serves as a guide to creating and maintaining quality instruction programs. The book includes a bibliography of a critical articles, books, association documents, and government data on information literacy in academic library instruction, intended to supplement the chapters on instructional theories and techniques, instructional modes, and building relationships and collaborations presented in this book.