Hekman librarian Sarah Kolk and Calvin English professor Kristine Johnson are pleased to announce a new co-authored chapter, “Frameworks in Conversation: Habits of Minds, Curriculum, and Assessment” in the 2016 collection The Future Scholar: Researching and Teaching the Frameworks for Writing and Information Literacy (edited by Randall McClure and James Purdy).

Kolk and Johnson coordinate the librarians’ research instruction sessions in Written Rhetoric (English 101), and in the summer of 2015, they noted striking similarities between two “framework” documents produced by their respective professional associations: the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2015) and the Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing (2011). In particular, both the ACRL and WPA Framework documents emphasize helping college students not only learn writing or research skills but to develop process-oriented “habits of mind” such as curiosity, persistence, and flexibility. As Kolk and Johnson write: “Habits of mind provide a compelling point of contact between our disciplines, and this point holds the potential to reinvigorate library-writing program collaborations” (5).