Creators in the Academic Library: Volume 1

Instruction and Outreach
In four parts, this volume explores how to teach specifically for creator research, motivate learning, and deepen students’ understanding of their own practice. Technology, Tools, and Techniques for Creation; Inspiring Creativity through Research; Creator’s Unique Information Needs; and Grounding Creation in Research.
Engineering students, designers, studio artists, and other student creators have unique research needs that libraries are well-positioned to meet. They use academic literature to inspire and ground creation, but also seek information from trade literature, patents, technical standards, and how-to manuals. They apply tacit knowledge and need to learn not only how to write within academic discourse but also create objects, designs, and experiences.

In four parts, Creators in the Academic Library: Instruction and Outreach explores how to teach specifically for creator research, motivate learning, and deepen students’ understanding of their own practice.

• Technology, Tools, and Techniques for Creation
• Inspiring Creativity through Research
• Creator’s Unique Information Needs
• Grounding Creation in Research 

Chapters are grouped by learning objectives rather than discipline to highlight the throughlines that unite creators regardless of their field. They include methods for researching creative technology, tools, and techniques in different settings and disciplines; how to research for inspiration; adapting our tools and teaching to the unique information-seeking behaviors of creator disciplines; and how these skills can be transferred to students’ future careers. Creators in the Academic Library offers learning strategies and objectives that can help you teach all manner of creators.

Contributor: Alexander C. Watkins (Edited by), Rebecca Zuege Kuglitsch (Edited by)

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