More than ESL: Exploring cultural collaboration opportunities with international students

Siebold, Connie; Yimin, Xiao

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Title

More than ESL: Exploring cultural collaboration opportunities with international students

Author(s)

• Siebold, Connie
• Yimin, Xiao

Issue Date

2023-09

Keyword(s)

• Academic Libraries
• Community-LED Services
• Critical Librarianship
• Cultural Programming
• International Students
• Partnership Development

Abstract

International students are frequently consolidated into a monolith of students with language needs and information poverty, constituting a disservice to both students and the library staff who seek to better serve them. In this study we interview international students to better understand the potential for cultural collaboration in programming in an academic library setting, and the barriers that keep students from participating. Our findings broaden the view of international students from remedial library users in need of catch-up information literacy and language education, and position them more holistically as potential full partners in programming efforts moving forward.

Series/Report Name or Number

Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2023

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

Handle URL

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/123050

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2023.1258

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright 2023 Connie Siebold, Xiao Yimin
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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