Murphy, James ELenart, BartlomiejStoeckle, Marc2022-03-182022-03-182021-10-29Murphy, J. E., Lenart, B., Stoeckle, M. (2022, October 27-29). Bridging the gap between sustainability and impact: The relationship between librarian involvement and the efficacy of information literacy instruction [Lightning Strike Presentation]. 2021 ALAO Annual Conference, Virtual.http://hdl.handle.net/1880/114494Lightning Strike Presentation, 2021 ALAO Annual ConferenceThis study was undertaken in an effort to understand what is needed to build lasting bridges between teaching faculty and librarian information literacy (IL) instruction. This study took advantage of a unique opportunity to compare IL instructional efficacy between librarian and non-librarian instructors teaching exactly the same content in a full-term course; it utilizes text analysis of student assignments to measure and evaluate IL skill development across four levels of librarian involvement (one-shot instruction, two levels of embeddedness, and librarian as instructor-of-record) in IL instruction within an undergraduate university course. The results are somewhat surprising, but nevertheless highly suggestive of the argument that the benefit to student IL skills is not related to amount of librarian instruction, but rather to the level of instructor buy-in with regard to library services and the importance of IL skills. We argue that the most impactful librarian involvement is as an information literacy consultant rather than a full-time embedded librarian (which is somewhat surprising given the literature on the efficacy of embeddedness). The study results have salient implications on academic librarian instructional practices and collaborations on course content with faculty members.Unless otherwise indicated, this material is protected by copyright and has been made available with authorization from the copyright owner. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.information literacyembedded librarianshipinquiry based learningtext analysisconference proceedings