Resources and Links

If you would like to contribute a link and/or other resources please email beiter@tltgroup.org

Workshop Links for Week #1

Please download and view this Microsoft word document: Institutional Readiness

The Basics—Overview of Information Literacy

ACRL (2000). ACRL information literacy competency standards for higher education. Retrieved October 5, 2006, from http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm

ACRL (2003). Characteristics of programs of information literacy that illustrate best practices. Retrieved October 5, 2006, from http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/characteristics.htm

ALA (2006). Introduction to information literacy. Retrieved October 5, 2006, from http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/infolitoverview/introtoinfolit/introinfolit.htm

Kasowitz-Scheer, A. & Pasqualoni, M. (2002) Information literacy instruction in higher education: Trends and Issues. ERIC Digest 465375 Retrieved October 5, 2006 from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/2a/35/c8.pdf

Owusu-Ansah, Edward K. (2003). “Information literacy and the academic library: a critical look at a concept and the controversies surrounding it.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 29 (4): 219-231.

Teaching Resources

Burkhardt, Joanna M., MacDonald, Mary C. & Rathemacher, Andree J. (2003) Teaching Information Literacy: 35 Practical Standards-based Exercises for College Students. Online or Amazon.com

Teaching Information Literacy Skills to Social Sciences Students and Practitioners: A Casebook of Applications
Edited by Douglas Cook and Natasha Cooper

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/nonserialtitles/teachinfolit.htm

Concept Sheets. Virginia Tech Information Skills Modules ( http://info-skills.lib.vt.edu/ )

http://info-skills.lib.vt.edu/developing_search/pdf_files/concept_table.pdf

Colbert Report: Wikiality: http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/?lnk=v&ml_video=72347

Workshop Links for Week #2

Tip Sheet on Outreach, Networking, and Collaboration (PDF) by Susan Ariew

The Collaborative Imperative: Librarians and Faculty Working Together in the Information Universe (Paperback)
by Richard Raspa (Editor), Dane Ward (Editor) Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0838980856/qid=1148392510/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2443374-8825667?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

Wader Kotter’s article, “Bridging the Great Divide: Improving Relations between Librarians and Classroom Faculty,” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 25 (4), July, 1999, pp. 294-303.

EDUCAUSE - Faculty and Library Collaboration:
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=645&PARENT_ID=648&bhcp=1

Badke, William B. (2005). “Can’t Get No Respect: Helping Faculty to Understand the Educational Power of Information Literacy,” The Reference Librarian, No. 89/90, pp. 63-80.

Acadia University. Vaughan Memorial Library. Information Literacy.
Good collection of links on a web site that addresses students and faculty as well as librarians.
http://library.acadiau.ca/services/infolit.html

Dalhousie Libraries.Information literacy, activities mapped to ACRL Information Literacy standards
http://infolit.library.dal.ca/staff/activities_list.htm

Marquette University. Information Literacy in the Curriculum
Addressed to faculty, this web site includes a description of information literacy, a discussion of progressive performance levels and assessment and including information literacy in the core curriculum
http://www.marquette.edu/library/training/informationliteracy.html

PRIMO. ACRL Information Literacy tutorials
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/iscommittees/webpages/emergingtech/primo/index.htm

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Information Literacy Activities (mapped to ACRL Information Literacy Standards)http://www.uwm.edu/Library/ris/instruction/ip/

Workshop Links for Week #3

Examples of Teaching Libraries

Glendale College (Planning document from 2001) http://www.glendale.edu/library/information/masterplan2001.html

Palo Alto College (Mission - teaching library) http://www.accd.edu/pac/lrc/teachinglib.htm

UC-Berkeley http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/

University of Tennessee - Knoxville http://www.lib.utk.edu/refs/teachinglib/about.html

University of Central Florida: QEP (Quality Enhancement Program http://library.ucf.edu/Reference/Instruction/

USC Libraries - Leavey Library http://www.usc.edu/libraries/locations/leavey/

Library Instruction

History of Library Instruction (Michael Lorenzen) http://www.libraryinstruction.com/lihistory.html

Intergrating Information Literacy into the Curriculum Course Integrated Library Instruction http://www.libraryinstruction.com/course-integrated.html

Koufogiannakis, Denise and Weibe, Natasha. (2006). “Effective Methods for Teaching Information Literacy Skills to Undergraduate Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice, retrieved February 19, 2007 from http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00007655/.

Teaching the Teachers: Information Literacy, Teaching Assistants, and First-Year Students http://www.lib.umt.edu/services/teaching.htm

Stoffle, Carla J. “The Instructional Program and Responsibilities of the Teaching Library, in Beverly Lynch’s Information Technology and the Remaking of the University Library. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1995.

Five Colleges of Ohio: Information literacy grant proposal: http://www.denison.edu/collaborations/ohio5/grant/development/proposal.html

Best Practices Library Instruction University Web Sites

These are some well-organized sites that organize instruction by audience: