Amid a surge in technological innovation and an increasing need for librarian expertise in area studies, there arises a critical need for discipline-specific Information Literacy skills. Originating from a grass-root initiative to empower diverse students in East Asian studies, this presentation introduces the East Asian Information Literacy Tutorial project, a user-centered video series that facilitates autonomous and self-directed learning to improve information literacy skills. It is noteworthy that this collaborative project is supported by a wide range of East Asian studies librarians from both public and private US R1 institutions. Through introducing the creation, collaboration, application, and reflection of this pioneering project, we explore discipline-specific pedagogical content knowledge, invite discourse on adapting to new technologies, and reflect on fostering cross-institutional collaboration and measuring educational impact.
Participants will:
- will gain an understanding of how to create subject librarian-driven tutorials to introduce subject-specific information literacy concepts.
- will discuss and identify strategies for successful cross-institutional librarian-librarian collaboration, librarian-faculty collaboration, and librarian-student collaboration.
- will compare content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge and assess the best practices for synthesizing the two to achieve desired results.
