Information literacy and writing studies in conversation

"Explores possibilities for college library instruction and writing program partnerships from a variety of vantage points, including empirical on student writing and information literacy development, policies and standards, interviews with librarian-compositionist partners, cultural and structural contexts that influence librarians' and writing instructors' work environments, and reflexive pedagogical praxis"-- "Since library instruction's very beginnings librarians and writing instructors have been natural partners. Library-writing program connections illustrate that both writing and information seeking and use (information literacy) share powerful links: both are central to posing and exploring problems and questions and to seeking informed and creative approaches to them. Despite these intersections, however, there is still a strong tendency for English composition and library instruction to be taught in relative separation, with the latter frequently being viewed as a course "add-on." Similarly, conversations about writing and information literacy pedagogy have tended to exist in professional silos. Fortunately, dialogue across our professions has begun to expand at what appear