Ideas, Strategies, and Scenarios in Music Information Literacy

by Kathleen A. Abromeit (Editor)

Ideas, Strategies, and Scenarios in Music Information Literacy offers expert guidance on planning and implementing information literacy instruction programs in a wide range of instructional situations and theoretical frameworks. The result is an exploration of various 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. As music and performing arts librarians revisit information literacy instruction, this essential book serves as a guide to creating and maintaining quality instruction programs. Music Information Literacy 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Librarianship

129 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

This short volumes brings together eight diverse and interesting chapters, each by a different author, on music information literacy instruction, plus an annotated bibliography for further reading. The chapters are grouped into three broad themes: instructional theories and techniques, instructional modes, and building relationships and collaborations.
I found this book both incredibly useful and very readable. I especially liked that even in the instructional theories section, each of the chapters focused on specific things the author had implemented at their institution and in their instruction sessions. While theory and background are certainly helpful, it's always the practical advice and illustrations that I most crave, and this book delivered.