Jim Elmborg's research interests focus around libraries as centers for teaching and learning. He works primarily in the area of academic librarianship. Specific interests include information literacy programming, pedagogy, and instructional technology. He chairs the university Virtual Writing University Committee and coordinates the Virtual Writing University Archives. Elmborg is affiliated faculty with the Language Literacy and Culture program in the College of Education, and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI). Areas of Interest: Information literacy programming, pedagogy, instructional technology
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Libraries As the Spaces Between Us: Recognizing and Valuing the Third Space, Reference & User Services Quarterly (2011)
Much has been written recently about the “library as place.” This essay approaches the question...
Literacies, narratives, and adult learning in libraries, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education (2010)
This chapter explores the multiple literacies adult learners bring to the learning process within libraries,...
Virtual Writing University Archive partnership with the University of Iowa Libraries (with Nicole Saylor), American Library Association Annual Conference (2010)
Two sets of panelists, each with a librarian and an LIS faculty member, discussed the...
Cathedral, Bazaar, or Some Third Thing: Can Open Source Work for Libraries?, Codex: The Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL (2010)
The author examines open source in the context of academic libraries, particularly as a software...
Framing a Vision for 21st-Century Librarianship: LIS Education in Changing Times, Serials Librarian (2008)
Librarianship is at a critical juncture. Technological changes have reshaped the information landscape, but libraries...