Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 3: Instruction & Information Literacy

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Pixton, Brigham Young University

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

Paper ID #38580Using Decision-based Learning to Develop Expert Information LiteracyBehaviors in Engineering UndergraduatesMr. David Pixton, Brigham Young University David Pixton is a subject liaison at the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. In this role, he is responsible for providing research training and assistance to students and faculty within the majority of engineering and technology fields offered at the university. He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineer- ing and Library & Information Science. David’s current research is focused on improving learning in a library environment, including the

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1: Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth C. Novosel, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

color, queers, nonbinary and trans people with disabilities.” For more information, visithttps://www.sinsinvalid.org/.Ableism is very much present in higher education settings. In his book, Academic Ableism,Timothy Dolmage [2017] provides an in-depth exploration of the history of ableism in academia,where disabled people have long been treated as inferior or faulty specimens to be studied, ratherthan as vibrant, valuable, contributing members of the scholarly community [40]. Althoughdisabled students and scholars gained a certain degree of legal protection in educational settingsunder the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, this protection did little to change thefact that post-secondary environments are designed for non-disabled