Part #10: Faculty roles and information literacy

1. What is the role of the librarian in your students’ education?
2. What do you think your role is when interacting with the librarians on your students’ behalf?
3. How can librarians best assist you with your teaching?
4. How in your opinion, can librarians best help your students with their studies?

Part #10 Readings

Association of College and Research Libraries. (2015). Philosophical shift: Teach the faculty to teach information literacy. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/whitepapers/nashville/smith

Fister, B. (2009, March).Fostering information literacy through faculty development. Library Issues, 29(4). Retrieved from http://homepages.gac.edu/~fister/LIfacultydevelopment.pdf

Activity

• Create a library-related subject-specific assignment for the students you are teaching.

Discussion and Reflection

1. What are your subject-specific concerns when it comes to the teaching of information literacy?
2. What are we missing when teaching our current course?
3. How can we improve on our current course?

Information Literacy Video Tutorials