It Isn’t “Giving Up” Class Time: Meaningful Library Instruction in Writing and Rhetoric

At the University of Notre Dame, we had the opportunity to reframe our partnership with the Writing and Rhetoric program as one based on teaching, rather than transactions. In this poster presentation, we share the strategies used to shift the conversation with the Writing and Rhetoric program, allowing them to see librarians as teaching partners who lead instruction sessions that are extensions of their curriculum rather than ones that take time away from their tight schedules. We will present resources we used to engage our colleagues in conversation, activities we created for the Writing and Rhetoric and Library classrooms, and other methods we employed to shift the conversation toward shared goals.