You Only Get One Shot: Critically Exploring and Reimagining the One-Shot Instruction Model
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 9-2022
Abstract
This article explores the one-shot library instruction model by asking critical questions about how it has become ubiquitous in the field. The authors developed these questions with the intent to understand how early-career librarians become acculturated to one-shots, how social identity and positionality shape instructional practices, its impact on burnout, equity, and sustainability, and how the one-shot could be reimagined. This article employs personal critical reflection as a methodology, using interviews with the team of authors and two external participants. Analysis of the interview data showed themes of organizational acculturation with one-shot training, empowerment/disempowerment to employ different instruction models, and the tension between the transactional and relational nature of library instruction. Through these reflections, the article advocates that a relational instruction model helps promote equitable, reflective teaching and learning experiences for librarians and students alike as a way to disrupt the tradition of the one-shot.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.83.5.726
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0186-7506
Recommended Citation
Pho, Annie, Abumeeiz, Salma, Bisbee, Kristina, Mody, Nisha, Romero, Renee, Tranfield, Wynn, AND Worsham, Doug. "You Only Get One Shot: Critically Exploring and Reimagining the One-Shot Instruction Model" Special issue of C&RL, edited by Nicole Pagowsky [Online], Volume 83 Number 5 (2 September 2022)
