LibGuides: Introduction to Information Literacy skills: Information Literacy @ AUA

What is Information Literacy

Information Literacy is, as it is defined by The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a set of life-long learning, transferrable skills/abilities that students can develop while studying at the university and use them after graduation in their professional life. These abilities are meant to help students in searching, evaluating/analyzing and using the information ethically.

ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

ACRL has developed Information Literacy Frames to help librarians to incorporate these frames into the curriculum. Work with faculty on developing Information Literacy skills among students.

According to ACRL there are 6 Frameworks, each frame has its set of knowledge practices and dispositions. Each frame can be used separately and in combination with each other.

Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
Information Creation as a Process
Information Has Value
Research as Inquiry
Scholarship as Conversation
Searching as Strategic Exploration

Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

How to Incorporate Teaching Materials

At AUA the Information Literacy sessions are incorporated within Freshman First-Year Seminar 1 and 2 courses.

At the same time, these sessions are designed for both Graduate and Undergraduate students. Also, it is possible to use these materials in several options.

All three or just one of the sessions can be requested in the following format:

1. One-shot in-class activity led either by the librarian or by the instructor.

Instructors can request one session or an element form the session such as an assignment for their course. These elements can be redesigned with the librarian, to create a specific assignment/task for students' research needs.

2. Sessions developed in the Moodle.

AUA is using Moodle as its Learning Management System. Introduction to Information Literacy Sessions are available on Moodle as separate sessions with corresponding slides, assignments. They can be assigned for the students to take them online for their research skills.

3. Sessions integrated in the course led either by the librarian or by the instructor.

All three sessions can be integrated into the course for the whole semester. They can be led either by the librarian or by the instructor.

Instruction Resources

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts by Patricia Bravender; Hazel Dean McClure; Gayle Schaub
ISBN: 9780838987711
Publication Date: 2015-06-01
Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. The lessons in this book, created by teaching librarians across the country, are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (2015). This volume offers concrete and specific ways of teaching the threshold concepts that are central to the ACRL Framework and is suitable for all types of academic libraries, high school libraries, as well as a pedagogical tool for library and information schools.
Classroom Assessment Techniques for Librarians by Melissa Bowles-Terry; Cassandra Kvenild
ISBN: 9780838987759
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Classroom Assessment Techniques for Librarians provides the tools librarians need to quickly and meaningfully assess student knowledge in the classroom. The authors, Melissa Bowles-Terry and Cassandra Kvenild, share 24 tried and true assessment tools, along with library-specific examples, to help librarians assess students' ability to recall, analyze, and apply new knowledge. The assessment tools in this book actively engage students by asking them to think, write, and reflect. Librarians can use results of these assessments as a starting point to define and measure information literacy learning outcomes as well as to improve their teaching skills and instructional design. This collection of assessment techniques can be adapted to multiple learning environments, including traditional one-shot library instruction, online instruction, and for-credit courses. This book is essential for academic libraries, and will prove useful to school libraries with strong information literacy programs, as well as library and information school collections.
Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning by Char Booth
ISBN: 9780838910528
Publication Date: 2011-02-22
Our bestselling Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning is a practical approach to developing personal "instructional literacy," a series of ideas that empower library professionals at any level of experience to become better and more confident educators. This second edition of RTEL will revisit and modernize dated technology and pedagogical content and will feature several chapters of new content in a new Part 3, such as more comprehensive treatments of assessment, collaboration, and leadership.Revised content:Each existing chapter in the first edition will be reviewed for comprehensiveness and currency but will not undergo major content overhauls.
Not just where to click : teaching students how to think about information by Troy A Swanson/Chicago, Ill. : Assoc. of College and Research Libraries
Publication Date: 2015
Not Just Where to Click: Teaching Students How to Think about Information explores how librarians and faculty work together to teach students about the nature of expertise, authority, and credibility. It provides practical approaches for motivating students to explore their beliefs, biases, and ways of interpreting the world.

This book also includes chapters that bridge the gap between the epistemological stances and threshold concepts held by librarians and faculty, and those held by students, focusing on pedagogies that challenge students to evaluate authority, connect to prior knowledge and construct new knowledge in a world of information abundance. Authors draw from a deep pool of perspectives including social psychology, critical theory, and various philosophical traditions.

Contributors to the nineteen chapters in this volume offer a balance of theoretical and applied approaches to teaching information literacy, supplying readers with accessible and innovative ideas ready to be put into practice.

Not Just Where to Click is appropriate for all types of academic libraries, and is also suitable for library and information science curricula and collections.
Faculty-Librarian Collaborations: Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses by Michael Stöpel, Livia Piotto, Xan Goodman, Samantha Godbey
ISBN: 97808389485380838948537
Publication Date: 2020
ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education is a valuable tool for librarians working with faculty in developing curriculum that integrates information literacy into the disciplines. Faculty-Librarian Collaborations collects chapters, case studies, and lesson plans detailing why these collaborations are important, how to develop and execute them, specific lesson plans, and ideas for assessing their effectiveness.

AMICAL is a consortium of American-modeled international liberal arts institutions working together on common goals for libraries, technology, and learning. This book is based on work begun in the AMICAL workshop “Co-design: Integrating Information Literacy into Your Disciplinary Course” held in 2017, along with subsequent design work, assessment, and a survey of participants. The workshop applicants were required to apply in faculty and librarian teams with the goal of integrating the ACRL Framework into a disciplinary course, as well as commit to an assessment effort at the end of their teaching experience to measure the affect of the collaboration.

Faculty-Librarian Collaborations is a product of what participants accomplished after the workshop, including case studies detailing how the collaborations worked and performed; a selection of information literacy lesson plans based on the ACRL Framework and co-designed by librarians and faculty; and an analysis of a survey of participants with recommendations and future implications. This collection can be put to use immediately in collaborating to support and assess student information literacy and learning.
Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Ed by Grant Wiggins; Jay McTighe
ISBN: 9781416600350
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks.

Introduction to Information Literacy skills

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It is also possible to Request a Librarian's assistance in revising or teaching an Information Literacy Session/s.

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What is Information Literacy

ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

ACRL has developed Information Literacy Frames to help librarians to incorporate these frames into the curriculum. Work with faculty on developing Information Literacy skills among students.

According to ACRL there are 6 Frameworks, each frame has its set of knowledge practices and dispositions. Each frame can be used separately and in combination with each other.

Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
Information Creation as a Process
Information Has Value
Research as Inquiry
Scholarship as Conversation
Searching as Strategic Exploration

How to Incorporate Teaching Materials

Instruction Resources

Introduction to Information Literacy skills

It is also possible to Request a Librarian's assistance in revising or teaching an Information Literacy Session/s.

What is Information Literacy

ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

ACRL has developed Information Literacy Frames to help librarians to incorporate these frames into the curriculum. Work with faculty on developing Information Literacy skills among students.

According to ACRL there are 6 Frameworks, each frame has its set of knowledge practices and dispositions. Each frame can be used separately and in combination with each other.

Authority Is Constructed and Contextual Information Creation as a Process Information Has Value Research as Inquiry Scholarship as Conversation Searching as Strategic Exploration

How to Incorporate Teaching Materials

Instruction Resources

Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
Information Creation as a Process
Information Has Value
Research as Inquiry
Scholarship as Conversation
Searching as Strategic Exploration