Jennifer Jarson
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Education History
Academic Support Areas
Research Interests
Publications
From Listener to Learner: A Podcast to Peek Behind the Curtain of Research Experiences, College and Research Libraries News, 2026
Is the ACRL Framework a teaching tool? Undergraduates’ interpretations of its language and concepts, Reference Services Review, 2022
From concept to creation: Shaping inquiry culture on campus with a co-curricular panel, College and Research Libraries News, 2021
Making the invisible visible: Enhancing information literacy and metacognition with a constructivist activity, International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, 2020
Moving beyond opinion and assumption: An information literacy activity to foster students’ critical thinking about popular press, Currents in Teaching and Learning, 2018
Practicing digital literacy in the liberal arts: A qualitative analysis of students' online research journals, The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 2017
Information literacy and higher education, College and Research Libraries News, 2010
Information literacy and writing tutor training at a liberal arts college, Communications in Information Literacy, 2009
Other Publications
Blogs
In search of serendipity, 2025
The forest and / or / versus the trees, 2025
On being open to being open, 2024
Achilles’ heel?, or Coping strategies turned strengths, 2024
What is “research,” anyway?, 2023
So-called “soft” skills, 2023
Navigating hard times in the higher ed landscape, 2023
Story swap, 2022
Uncovering expectations and opportunities, opening doors, 2022
Our TBR lists, 2022
Things I didn't know I needed to know, 2022
What’s bringing you joy? An ACRLogger collaborative post, 2022
Things I mean to know, 2021
Looking back, looking forward, 2021
From clicks toward concepts in the information literacy classroom, 2021
Another post on burnout, or A pep talk on cultivating an empathic attitude, 2021
How are you doing? (part 2), 2021
A hook to grab onto: Creating context cues in online instruction, 2020
Reflecting on library space through the lens of the pandemic, 2020
How are you doing?, 2020
If our spaces could speak, what would they say?, 2019
Pulling back the curtain: Conversations about process and information literacy, 2019
Weaving it together, 2018
Telling the stories of our spaces, 2018
In and out of context: Musings on information literacy, institutional, and higher ed landscapes, 2018
What is library space for?: Reflecting on space use and noise management, 2018
Small steps, big picture, 2017
What can a lens of newness afford us?, 2017
We’re all ears: Learning by listening, 2017
What does your student-centered lens on library practice look like?, 2017
Building OER momentum with a mini-grant program, 2017
Growing a peer digital learning program, 2017
Straight talk: Inviting students’ perspectives on information literacy teaching and learning, 2016
Exploring artifacts of students’ learning trajectories, or the view from here, 2016
What does open pedagogy for information literacy look like?, 2016
Attempting to complicate students’ news consumption, 2016
“Playable, not just performable”: Telling the story of information literacy, 2016
Asking questions to create opportunities for conversation and learning, 2016
People and place: Musings on organizational culture, 2016
Information literacy strategies and student agency: Connecting the dots with “dissection” activities, 2016
Making strategy more transparent, 2016
Room to grow?, 2016
Generosity at work, 2015
Versus / and / or: The relationship between information literacy and digital literacy, 2015
Dear diary: Using a reflective teaching journal for improvement and assessment?, 2015
Summer doldrums: Regenerating some mojo, or how sweet it really is, 2015
Facilitating student learning and engagement with formative assessment, 2015
Mixed messages, missed opportunities? Writing it better, 2015
Across divides: Librarian as translator, 2014
Intentional teaching, intentional learning: Toward threshold concepts through reflective practice, 2014
Chapters
When can we trust political information?, Teaching American government and politics: Centering democratic citizenship and engagement in the introductory classroom, 2024
Mapping unfamiliar territory: Using guided reading charts to navigate sources, Teaching critical reading skills: Strategies for academic librarians, 2023
Scalable, flexible, and scaffolded: Undergraduate research across a multi-faceted university context, Undergraduate research and the academic librarian, 2023
A bird’s eye view of the research process: Developing students’ attention to research practices, iterations, and inquiry, Framing information literacy: Teaching grounded in theory, pedagogy, and practice, 2018
In the test kitchen with international students: Decoding research terminology, concepts, and tools, The first-year experience library cookbook, 2017