{"title":"\"No more boxes\": students' experiences of information literacy.","authors":"Nena Schvaneveldt, Kay Strahan","doi":"10.1080/02763869.2026.2704012","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy provides a lens to examine learners' behavior, attitudes, and beliefs. In this follow up to a recent research study, we examine how students transitioning to clinical education understood how they learned to use information as new clinicians. Literature often describes learners with a deficit narrative, where students are expected to follow a prescribed scholarly path to gain knowledge. Participants described a variety of experiences from throughout their lives as valuable which contradicts this narrative. This highlights that librarians' engagement with health sciences students should center their humanity and agency as we guide them toward effective information practices in service of patient care.</p>","PeriodicalId":39720,"journal":{"name":"Medical Reference Services Quarterly","volume":" ","pages":"228-236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medical Reference Services Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02763869.2026.2704012","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/7/21 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy provides a lens to examine learners' behavior, attitudes, and beliefs. In this follow up to a recent research study, we examine how students transitioning to clinical education understood how they learned to use information as new clinicians. Literature often describes learners with a deficit narrative, where students are expected to follow a prescribed scholarly path to gain knowledge. Participants described a variety of experiences from throughout their lives as valuable which contradicts this narrative. This highlights that librarians' engagement with health sciences students should center their humanity and agency as we guide them toward effective information practices in service of patient care.
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This highly acclaimed, peer-reviewed journal is an essential working tool for medical and health sciences librarians. For those professionals who provide reference and public services to health sciences personnel in clinical, educational, or research settings, Medical Reference Services Quarterly covers topics of current interest and practical value in the areas of reference in medicine and related specialties, the biomedical sciences, nursing, and allied health. This exciting and comprehensive resource regularly publishes brief practice-oriented articles relating to medical reference services, with an emphasis on user education, database searching, and electronic information. Two columns feature the Internet and informatics education.