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Merging Information Literacy and Evidence-Based Practice in an Undergraduate Health Sciences Curriculum Map
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Franzen, Susan; Bannon, Colleen M. – Communications in Information Literacy, 2016
The ACRL's "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education" offers the opportunity to rethink information literacy teaching and curriculum. However, the ACRL's rescinded "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education" correlate with the preferred research and decision-making model of the health…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Evidence Based Practice, Undergraduate Students, Health Sciences
Why Do We Teach? Adult Learning Theory in Professional Standards as a Basis for Curriculum Development
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Gilstrap, Donald L. – College & Research Libraries, 2013
This article provides an overview of adult learning theory in relation to teaching philosophies among librarians belonging to ACRL, using Hadley's Educational Orientation Questionnaire. Although not significant as a predictor, there was a nonlinear and negative correlation between librarians' familiarity with the ACRL Standards and their adult…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Standards, Curriculum Development
Collaborating To Advance Curriculum-Based Information Literacy Initiatives.
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Booth, Austin; Fabian, Carole Ann – Journal of Library Administration, 2002
Explores organizational structures, curriculum guidelines, and standards for higher education and suggests strategies to position the ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) information literacy standards within institutional planning documents and to initiate campus-wide adoption of information literacy standards. Discusses the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Curriculum Development, Educational Planning, Higher Education
Building the Learning Library: Where Do We Start?
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Donnelly, Kimberley M. – College & Undergraduate Libraries, 2000
Discusses a learning-centered approach to information literacy and considers how educational change and reform are tools for academic librarians to use to begin building learning libraries. Topics include standards for information literacy, including creating unified competencies throughout the curriculum; expertise; value added information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Competence, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
The Instructional Consultant Role of the School Library Media Specialist: A Research Study.
Pickard, Patricia White – 1990
The purpose of this study was to determine if a lag existed between the theoretical instructional role of design and consultation as described in library literature and standards and the instructional role practiced by school library media specialists. The population for this study was the 128 library media specialists of the DeKalb County Public…
Descriptors: Classification, Consultants, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development
Exploring Elements for Educational Excellence: Experience, Expectations, Enhancements, Evaluation. Papers from the ALISE Annual Conference (Chicago, Illinois, January 8-11, 1991).
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Du Mont, Rosemary Ruhig, Ed.; And Others – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1991
Eight papers from the 1991 ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education) conference are presented. Highlights include the early years of library education, the status of doctoral programs, bibliographic instruction and the library school curriculum, evaluation of faculty, recruitment of international students, and gender-based…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Programs
Information Literacy Program Development for ESL Classes in a Community College
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Pracha, Christina; Stout, Mary; Jurkowitz, Lisa – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2005
At Pima Community College's Downtown Campus, the ESL lead faculty, library intern and librarian collaborated to create a comprehensive, progressive information literacy curriculum, based upon principles and best practices in both Second Language Acquisition Theory and the Information Literacy Competency Standards for a suite of ESL courses. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Information Literacy