Information Literacy

General guidelines for information literacy instruction:

• Please give the library at least one week notice for your instruction request. This allows librarians to prepare for your students, assignments, and learning objectives. 
• Requesting a session earlier helps you get the time and room you want. The librarians' schedules fill up quickly, especially in weeks 3-6 of the semester.
• Students get more out of library instruction when it's coordinated with an assignment, at a point in the semester when they are starting to research, or has a real world connection. 
• If possible, we recommend booking a library classroom to get your students in the library building.
• We can create special activities connected to one of the Frames from the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. 
• We can get creative with topics about fake news, fact-checking, scholarship as conversation, the nature of authority when it comes to information, information privileges, algorithmic bias, and more. Just ask!
• Unless it's a special circumstance, professors are expected to attend sessions with their students.  Librarians will not take attendance.