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Author
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Amy R. Hofer, Lori Townsend, and Korey Brunetti
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Year
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2012
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Publisher
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Libraries and the Academy, Volume 12, Number 4, October 2012, pp. 387-405 (Article)
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Abstract
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Librarians regularly encounter students who struggle to understand and apply information literacy concepts. A qualitative survey administered to information literacy practitioners asked about troublesome content and analyzed results using the threshold concepts pedagogical framework first described by Jan Meyer and Ray Land. A threshold concept transforms the learner’s view of content and helps integrate previously learned material; threshold concepts are portals that, once traversed, bring insight into how to think and act like a practitioner within a discipline. This project uses the data collected to propose seven threshold concepts for information literacy.