Cultivating Information Literacy: A Classroom-Library
Partnership
Tuesday, March 6 (3:00-4:30 pm) Buntrock 142. Jo Beld, Political Science, Mary Carlsen, Family and Social Service, Elizabeth Hutchins, Library. Student Participants: Patti McKiernan, Jennifer Erickson, and Sean Thomas-Breitfeld.
Information literacy is rapidly becoming a topic of national interest and concern. Learn what it means to have students "information literate" from the perspective of two social policy courses. What types of assignments encourage these intellectual competencies, in what way do these competencies differ from one discipline to another, and how do students demonstrate these skills?
Resources for Information Literacy:
"Information Literacy in a Nutshell: Basic Information
for Academic Adminstrators and Faculty" http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/whatis.html
Shapiro and Hughes, "Information Literacy as a Liberal Art"
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewarticles/31231.html
Snavely and Cooper, "The Information Literacy Debate,"
Journal of Academic Librarianship, January 1997
