Craig Gibson is Professor and Professional Development Coordinator in the Libraries at The Ohio State University. He also holds an appointment as Faculty Fellow for Mentoring in the Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning at Ohio State. His research interests include information literacy; threshold concepts for teaching and learning; partnerships between libraries and Centers for Teaching Excellence and other academic enters; undergraduate research; and the emerging role of civic dialogue institutes on campuses. He has consulted widely on liaison librarianship and information literacy programs in libraries, was a faculty member in the ACRL Immersion Program, from 2000-2022, the signature professional development program in information literacy for academic librarians, and co-led the ACRL Task Force that wrote the Framework for Information Literacy, the profession’s primary curricular planning document for information literacy. He is co-moderator of the Heterodox Librarians group and a contributor to that group’s Heterodoxy in the Stacks substack. Among other new affiliations, he joined the Academic Freedom Alliance in 2022. Most recently, he is a team member of the Open Inquiry Toolkit project, a Mercatus Center-funded project focused on teaching intellectual virtues and biases to improve students’ agency in the highly variable information environment of the present.
His publications include the edited Student Engagement and Information Literacy; and the co-edited Interdisciplinarity and Academic Libraries, and Building Teaching and Learning Communities: Creating Shared Meaning and Purpose, and numerous articles and conference papers.