Facilitating Student-Authored Papers in LIS Education Research: A Case Study from the LIS Classroom

Abstract

This paper describes the process and tools used to facilitate a collaborative student co-authored paper that was recently published as a short communication in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS). This paper is written by the instructor of the course and provides direction to other LIS instructors on how to successfully facilitate publishable quality student co-authored papers as an in-class activity using online collaborative teaching tools. It is especially relevant to courses or projects that include social justice topics.

Davin Helkenberg

Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University; Reference Librarian, Okanagan Regional Library

Dr. Davin Helkenberg is a recent PhD in LIS graduate, adjunct faculty at Western University, and Reference Librarian at the Okanagan Regional Library. Her research primarily focuses on fiction as a source of everyday life information for young people. Davin’s broader interests include LIS education, research methodology for sensitive topics, and the political economy of book publishing.