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Ward, Lucinda; Kmetz, Thomas – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2023
A recent revamping of a three-credit-hour course, which the library at Morehead State University has offered for more than two decades, prompted the authors to contemplate what it means to modernize information literacy instruction in a credit-bearing format. For the authors, this modernization meant both committing to asynchronous delivery and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, State Universities, Library Instruction, Information Literacy
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Khailova, Ladislava; Guhde, Emily; Bernstein, Matthew – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, 2023
Academic libraries increasingly offer information literacy instruction online. This mixed methods study, innovatively focused on graduate professional studies students, confirms that the provision of asynchronous modules represents an effective and scalable method in this regard. When Georgetown's SCS librarians embedded their faculty-endorsed…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Information Literacy, Online Courses
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Sheena Campbell; Nancy Wallace – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2024
In this case study, two librarians reflect upon our efforts to design STEM-focused information literacy instruction for undergraduate students at an R1, land grant university. Designed around the principles of culturally relevant pedagogy, our curriculum integrates community-focused and regionally specific topics reflecting our students' lived…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Culturally Relevant Education
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Shreeve, Sue; Chelin, Jacqueline – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2014
The research aimed to discover the perceived impact and to identify the value of four information skills teaching interventions within the curriculum in three faculties at the University of the West of England. Faculty and library staff interviews and student focus groups were used to gather evidence about the perceived impact of the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Skill Development, Learning Modules, Information Literacy
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Chen, Hsin-Liang – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2009
The purpose of this project was to investigate how students' search strategies changed over the course of a semester-long information literacy class. Data collection included four different paper questionnaires corresponding to course content in the spring 2008 semester. Seventy-seven participants completed the questionnaires and course work in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Course Content, Search Strategies, Information Literacy
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Johnson, Wendell G. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2008
Many libraries offer for-credit courses that intend to foster information literacy. These courses will be strengthened if the librarian as instructor has a familiarity with learning theory. This article suggests that Robert Gagne's "Nine Events of Instruction," based on information processing theory, can provide support to bibliographic…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Information Literacy, Information Processing, Library Instruction
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Garritano, Jeremy R. – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
This article provides information on a chemical information literacy program designed primarily for new graduate students. The full implementation of this program is discussed, including defining its purpose, topics covered, content presented, methods of marketing, and evaluation. The result is a series of voluntary seminars given biweekly…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Seminars, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
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Tag, Sylvia G. – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
This article describes the formation and content of a required library and information research course for graduate and professional students enrolled in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Master of Arts degree program at Western Washington University. The course was created as a result of library assessment, student feedback, and faculty…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Course Descriptions, Course Content, Information Literacy
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Manuel, Kate – Reference Services Review, 2001
Describes an online, for-credit information literacy class developed at the California State University, Hayward library to meet student needs and to explore the potential of distance education. Describes course content and discusses findings that suggest that students are less prepared to function in a Web-based distance education environment…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Course Content, Credit Courses, Distance Education
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Greenwood, Tina Evans; Frisbie, Jeffrey – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1998
Describes a one-credit, theme-based library instruction course for freshmen and sophomores at Fort Lewis College (Durango, Colorado). Discusses benefits of theme-based instruction; assigned work; skills students should acquire during the course; course assessment and development; and future changes in the course. (AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Course Content, Higher Education, Information Literacy
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Ellison, Alicia B. – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2004
Faculty/librarian collaboration is a topic that receives almost as much coverage in the library literature as information literacy. It is probably safe to say that information literacy efforts cannot succeed without positive collaboration between classroom faculty and librarians. The most common scenario for such collaboration is the library…
Descriptors: Library Research, Cooperation, Course Content, Information Literacy
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Roff, Sandra – History Teacher, 2007
Treasures await students and researchers on the shelves of libraries and archives across the country, but unfortunately they often remain unknown to the "modern" researcher who limits his/her research to using the Internet. The process of physically going to the library stacks and browsing the shelves in a subject area is on the decline…
Descriptors: Library Research, Research Methodology, Special Libraries, Research Skills
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Boff, Colleen; Johnson, Kristin – Reference Services Review, 2002
Reports results of a nationwide survey of first-year experience (FYE) courses for college freshmen to determine whether FYE course curricula contained a library component, especially information literacy. Discusses who develops the library component, who teaches it, course content, and the role that libraries and librarians play. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Freshmen, Course Content, Course Integrated Library Instruction
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Thomas, Nancy R. – College & Undergraduate Libraries, 1997
Describes the planning process that took place at the College of DuPage (Illinois) in the development of a cross-platform interactive multimedia instruction program designed to be accessible to undergraduate students with diverse information literacy skills. Several authoring software packages are reviewed, and project proposal and content outline…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), College Libraries, Computer Software, Course Content