Abstract
The changing landscape of higher education and increasing demand for multi-skilled employees in today’s workforce have exposed opportunities for cross-disciplinary and cross-curricular engagements in university classrooms. At the same time, budgetary constraints and shifting institutional structures present challenges to adopting and integrating such holistic approaches to research, teaching, and learning. This paper explores the connective function of academic libraries on university campuses, describing librarians’ roles as curricular and pedagogical partners to teaching faculty and facilitators of interdepartmental research. Through a review of literature and the presentation and analysis of a case study on co-taught library instruction sessions, librarians and teaching faculty are invited to examine the cross-curricular student engagements that may be expanded and supported through the consultative and collaborative position of academic libraries.
Recommended Citation
Grauel, Elizabeth and Ziedses des Plantes, Erik
(2024)
"Cross-Curricular Opportunities through Libraries, Librarians, and Instruction,"
Research and Reflection on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Vol. 2, Article 2.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/rrlthe/vol2/iss1/2