WILU 2024

Community service/learning (CSL) combines community service with structured learning and reflection. This presentation explores the role of academic libraries in facilitating community service/learning (CSL) opportunities for university students from diverse colleges and departments, describing a partnership between the University of Saskatchewan (USask) Library and Foundations Learning & Skills Saskatchewan, a community/based organization (CBO). This partnership program saw USask students first trained by the CBO in tutoring elementary school students in reading skills, and then tutoring the students throughout a term while regularly participating in library/led sessions on literacy, citizenship, and information privilege. The benefits, challenges, and logistics of the program will be covered, and students’ academic and civic learning experience will be explained.