Affective Collaborative Instruction with Librarians

The expertise of academic librarians in the area of using and teaching with information technology provides a solid foundation for increasing their level of collaboration with teaching faculty. Of course, differing degrees of collaboration exist in every university system depending upon status of the librarians and faculty culture. Many approaches have been taken by librarians to encourage and cultivate this phenomenon. Nevertheless, two pre-conditions must exist before information literacy-based collaboration can exist: (1) teaching faculty have to understand and value information/ information literacy, and the academic librarian’s role in curricular deployment; (2) teaching faculty need to deal with information technology, which demands a change in the academic culture as well as in best practice. Counter-intuitively, change that involves information technology requires significant psychological support and increased collaboration. In addressing the issue of change, people need to consider the impact of individuals’ emotional and psychological states. Along with the cognitive domain, Bloom, Mesia and Krathwohl AbstrAct