"Can't anyone be a teacher anyway?": Student Perceptions of Academic Librarians as Teachers

Authors

Mark Aaron Polger, CUNY College of Staten IslandFollow
Karen Okamoto, CUNY John Jay CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2010

Abstract

The study explores student perceptions of the academic librarian as teachers. A questionnaire was distributed to 500 students at two City University of New York colleges. Convenience and snowball sampling were employed to reach as many respondents as possible. Questionnaires were administered following a library instruction class and in the campus cafeteria. Contrary to results from previous studies, many respondents consider librarians to be teachers.

Comments

This work was originally published in Library Philosophy and Practice.