Teaching Critical Reading Skills: Strategies for Academic Librarians. Hannah Gascho Rempel and Rachel Hamelers, eds. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023. 2v. 256p. Paper, $120.00 (ISBN: 978-0-8389-3961-1).

Abstract

This two-volume set contains forty-five invited contributions that offer examples of how individual academic libraries are supporting the teaching of critical reading at their institutions. According to the editors, the project is inspired by the 2015 essay collection Critical Reading in Higher Education: Academic Goals and Social Engagement (Manarin, 2015), which “provided the theoretical basis for these volumes and helped us explore what critical reading could look like as practiced and interpreted by academic librarians” (v. 1, XIII).