Global Virtual Exchange Faculty Workshop

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to integrating information literacy learning outcomes into your course. 

Librarian-led instruction sessions: timed with a research assignment, hands-on instruction sessions with librarians can support student success in your assignments.

Course & Assignment design: we can work with you to scaffold information literacy learning throughout the semester through assignment design and in class activities and corresponding assessments. 

Online tutorials and guides: we have online guides and tutorials on our website that you can use in your instruction or point students toward. We can also tailor research guides for assignments.

Information literacy is a lifelong skill that librarians take seriously. 

We break down information literacy like this:

• Authority Is Constructed and Contextual - a creator's expertise and credibility constructed and contextualized by various disciplines and information need
• Information Creation as a Process - the iterative processes of researching, creating, revising, and disseminating information vary, and the resulting product reflects these differences
• Information Has Value - value, including as a commodity, as a means of education, as a means to influence, and as a means of negotiating and understanding the world
• Research as Inquiry - research is an iterative process of inquiry
• Scholarship as Conversation - communities of scholars engage in sustained discourse with new discoveries, insights, perspectives and interpretations
• Searching as Strategic Exploration - Searching is nonlinear, iterative and requires mental flexibility

See the full Association of College and Research Libraries' Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education