Library Instruction
High Library Information Literacy Mission and Goals
It is one of our primary roles at High Library to teach students information literacy skills and concepts that promote lifelong learning and professional development and that prepare students for lives of civic engagement and public service, supporting the overall mission of Elizabethtown College.
In partnership with Elizabethtown College faculty, our information literacy program delivers course-integrated instruction to students in stages, beginning with broad, introductory research methods and progressing on to a mastery of skills specific to each student’s disciplinary concentration.[1] Throughout each stage, students also learn higher-level “threshold concepts” that aim to deepen their understanding of the research process across disciplines. [2]
In order to help students succeed in an age of information abundance and rapid technological change, our information literacy program aims to ensure that students are able to meet the following goals:
GOAL 1: Student Understands Their Information/Research Needs and How to Use Different Tools to Meet Those Needs
GOAL 2: Student Understands How to Search for and Organize Information
GOAL 3: Student Thinks Critically About Information and the Research Process
GOAL 4:
Student Values Information and Uses It Ethically
[1] Adapted from Carnegie Mellon University’s Mission Statement at http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jeana/EPSindex.html
[2] Association of College and Research Libraries. (2015). Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
Library Instruction – Sample Topics
For First-Year Courses
- Differentiating scholarly and non-scholarly sources
- Differentiating primary, secondary, and tertiary sources
- Citations Workshop
- Academic Integrity Workshop
- Assignment-Specific Research Session
- Resource Evaluation
- Using Reference Resources Effectively
- Finding and Narrowing a Research Topic
For Upper Division Courses
- Assignment-Specific Research Session
- Advanced Subject Databases
- Advanced Google Scholar
- Understanding Copyright
- Bibliographic Mining
- Literature Review Preparation
- Researching Beyond High Library Resources
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