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Amanda Dinscore; Debbie Gonzalez – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
Social work education prioritizes the use of research to inform practice. As university students, prospective social workers have a wealth of research available to them as well as librarians to help them find, evaluate, and use that information. However, access to much of this research ends once the student graduates - at a time when it is most…
Descriptors: Barriers, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Librarians
Christina Taylor Gibson; Elizabeth Massey – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
The ACRL "Framework for Information Literacy" revolutionized information literacy instruction. It asks librarians to instill in students the higher-level skills to navigate the information landscape. Literature establishes the value of shared faculty ownership of information literacy threshold concepts, but it also documents the…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Academic Libraries
Anne Jumonville Graf – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
The process of determining whether a source of information is relevant is multidimensional, dynamic, and subjective. This essay puts information science scholarship on relevance, including the process and nature of making relevance judgments, in conversation with models of teaching and learning information literacy. Teaching librarians are…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Information Literacy, Literacy Education, Information Sources
William Badke; Elizabeth Kreiter; Qinqin Zhang – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
The reference librarians of Trinity Western University have a strong mission-driven commitment to teach information literacy, but there is a significant contrast between the amount of instruction they can provide and the demanding task of developing all students as skilled researchers. The growing teach-the-teacher model suggested an option to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Workshops, Information Literacy, Literacy Education
Alyssa Russo – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
This narrative review examines the thematic content and evolution of information literacy textbooks published between 2005 and 2022. Analyzing sixteen textbooks, it explores two themes: the research process and conceptual foundations of information literacy. The research process theme highlights the procedural aspects of conducting library…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Preparation
Anthony Tardiff – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
Though the ACRL "Framework" holds metacognition as crucial to exercising information literacy, its emphasis was reduced from prominence in early drafts to a single mention in the final document. At the same time, few of the frequently-taught sets of source evaluation criteria include a step for self-awareness. This raises the question:…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Information Literacy, Information Sources, Evaluative Thinking
Nate Floyd; Jaclyn Spraetz – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
Inspired by the apprenticeship model of teaching and learning, two instructors report on their efforts to place current events at the center of a semester-long media and information literacy course. They discuss strategies to harness curiosity about contemporary topics (e.g., misinformation, climate change, algorithms, right-to-repair, blockchain,…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Media Literacy, 21st Century Skills, Current Events
Rebecca B. Penrose; Kristi J. Chavez – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
This article showcases an instructor-librarian collaborative model for teaching critical information literacy (CIL) skills in a higher education course by incorporating interactive workshops into a sequence of required course assignments. Using an asset-focused design, this assignment sequence allows students to first demonstrate their existing…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Teacher Collaboration, Student Writing Models, Research Skills
Stacy Brinkman; Samantha Hilton – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
The "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education" posits that the practice of asking questions in order to deepen inquiry and understanding is a key element of information literacy. While the "Research as Inquiry" frame is teachable in library instruction, it can be difficult to scale. Popular instructional design…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Standards, Higher Education, Inquiry
Catherine F. Riehle; Erica DeFrain; Deborah Minter; Janel Simons – Communications in Information Literacy, 2024
This article presents an exploratory study that examines how 11 first-year writing instructors' conceptualizations of information literacy evolved over the course of their participation in an inquiry group co-developed and co-facilitated by the Libraries' teaching faculty and the Director of Composition & Rhetoric at a public university in the…
Descriptors: Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Intention, Information Literacy
Schultz, Teresa; Azadbakht, Elena S. – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
This case study describes how the authors incorporated the principles and practices of open pedagogy into a three-credit Honors College course focused on information literacy and undergraduate research. It included using literature review sources to help edit Wikipedia articles, registering a research project proposal with the Open Science…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Information Literacy, Librarians, Library Instruction
Carter, Kate McNally; Santiago, Ariana – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
The literature in open education has thoroughly examined the implications of labor and staffing for initiatives around open educational resources (OER). However, less attention has been paid to the reliance on librarian labor for open pedagogy support. This article describes a collaboration between librarians and faculty to support an open…
Descriptors: Librarians, Libraries, Open Educational Resources, College Faculty
Griesbaum, Joachim; Dreisiebner, Stefan; Mackey, Thomas P.; Jacobson, Trudi E.; Thadathil, Tessy; Bhattacharya, Subarna; Adilovic, Emina – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
Intercultural Perspectives on Information Literacy and Metaliteracy (IPILM) is a discourseoriented learning environment that engages students from diverse cultural backgrounds to participate in collaborative knowledge construction. The objective is to evolve a thematic approach to course design that includes elements of open pedagogy, information…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Information Literacy, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods
Bussell, Hilary; Larson, Amanda – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
This case study describes how two librarians transformed an international information literacy course by creating a scaffolded open pedagogy experience for students to build transferable skills while exploring how information is produced, disseminated, and interpreted across the world. The authors discuss how we collaborated on the project to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Assignments, Case Studies
Robyn Hall – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
Supported by institutional commitments to community engagement, undergraduate students at universities across North America are participating in community-based research projects. These experiential learning activities allow students to collaborate with community partners to address issues in their communities, often resulting in co-creating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Libraries, Community Education, Research Projects