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Embedding Information Literacy Instruction throughout the Curriculum
(2018-01-26)
Subject librarians at Auburn have traditionally taught information literacy sessions within the disciplines on an ad hoc basis. While they have wanted a more formal role in courses, their involvement depends on the ...
Reframing Information Literacy Assessment: Reaching for College Seniors
(2018-09-10)
Although our institution has a history of information literacy assessment for general education, we found the method used did not allow us to tell a compelling story about students’ information literacy skills. After a ...
Tackling the Complexities of Source Evaluation: Active Learning Exercises that Foster Students' Critical Thinking
(2014-07-01)
Library instructors are often called upon to teach classes devoted to evaluating information sources. These sessions are typically offered in conjunction with writing assignments that require students to locate sources ...
Librarian's Role in General Education: Authentically Assessing Information Literacy Skills via English Composition Classes
(2014-04-12)
This poster reports on a method used at Auburn University Libraries to assess information literacy skills of students that incorporates both formative and summative authentic assessment.
Teaching Students the How and Why of Source Evaluation: Pedagogies that Empower Communities of Learning and Scholarship
(2015-05-21)
Evaluating information sources is an essential part of the research process, but many students fail to grasp its importance. In order to sustain and participate in the research practices that create new knowledge, students ...
Changing User Needs, Changing Librarian Roles: A Qualitative Study
(2017-10-05)
This qualitative study explored possible adaptions to the roles of librarians working in the reference department of a southeastern academic research library. The study used focus groups to investigate new directions for ...
E-Learning Librarian by Night: Creating an Online Instruction Program through Self-Directed Learning
(2016-11-21)
When a large public university made a commitment to e-learning in its five-year strategic plan, the coordinator for the university library’s information literacy instruction program recognized the need for online instructional ...
Ramp-Up Your Worksheets
(2017-04-24)
Creating worksheets for instruction sessions that require students to think critically can be a challenge, especially when the librarian only has 50-minutes to introduce and discuss a concept. I will share strategies for ...
The Collision of Two Lexicons: Librarians, Composition Instructors and the Vocabulary of Source Evaluation
(2017-03-27)
Based on article of the same name: http://hdl.handle.net/11200/48586
The Collision of Two Lexicons: Librarians, Composition Instructors and the Vocabularly of Source Evaluation
(2016-03-21)
From article abstract: "The study has two aims. The first is to identify words and phrases from information literacy and rhetoric and composition that students used to justify the comparability of two sources. The second ...