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VALUE rubrics at LaGuardia Community College
At LaGuardia Community College, faculty are using VALUE rubrics to assess student learning. A modified VALUE rubric for information literacy was used to assess students’ research and information literacy competency. Work from students with 25 credits or less and from students with 45 credits or more was examined, and the scores compared. The observed increase […]
VOILA tutorials at Hunter College Libraries
Hunter College Libraries’ VOILA tutorials were described in the April 2012 College and Research Libraries News (Blevens, 2012, pages 205). VOILA (Virtual Orientation Information Literacy Assessment) features a virtual library tour, a video tutorial for finding what materials the library has, a tutorial on reading call numbers and a test to assess what has been […]
Panel discussion on “Information Literacy and Workplace Readiness” on April 27
Session on “Information Literacy and Workplace Readiness” April 27 Today more than ever, success in the classroom and in the workforce depends on the ability to evaluate a rapidly expanding pool of specialized information. Information competence involves a complex set of critical thinking skills to find, evaluate, contextualize and communicate information using technology. Employees who […]
Hostos Using Blackboard for Information Literacy Workshops
This semester, for the first time, the library began offering online versions of our information literacy workshops through Blackboard. “Keys to Database Searching” was offered four times and “Finding Articles” class was given twice during the Fall semester. On weekdays, the workshops were open 7 a.m. to 8:45pm while a Saturday work-shop was offered from […]
Revisioning Information Literacy for Lifelong Meaning by Dane Ward.
Dear LILAC Colleagues, I am including some notes, reactions and discussion questions on a thought provoking article by Dane Ward: Revisioning Information Literacy for Lifelong Meaning; Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 32, 4. June 2006, which was shared by Robert Farrell. My goal is to initiate a discussion where we attempt to conceptualize Information Literacy […]
Building Information Literacy into Research Assignments: Working with library resources in the classroom. By Jeffrey Kroessler.
Not so long ago, the classroom could function comfortably apart from the library. The library was the place where students went to conduct research for class assignments. That world has vanished. Information Literacy across the curriculum is now the mandate, and it is more crucial than ever for classroom faculty and librarians to work together […]
Skills That Transfer: Transliteracy and the Global Librarian (ACRL/NY 2011 Symposium)
Philosopher and librarian Lane Wilkinson was in town last week to present his thoughts on transliteracy at the ACRL/NY symposium. Winkinson is on a mission to persuade us to teach students more transferable skills. Students need transferable skills he argues, so as to be able to move more easily among diverse resources and interfaces. We […]
ACRL Intentional Teacher Immersion
I was given a chance to go to the ACRL Intentional Teacher Immersion that was held in Nashville, Tennessee from November 16th to November 20th. It was an incredible, amazing experience. It will take me a long time to really sort out what I learned, so please consider this a first draft. The workshop followed […]
Critical Thinking Skills Initiative for Community College Students
In community colleges, teaching information literacy is a powerful intervention for improving student retention, graduation rates and employability. Increasing these students’ opportunities for higher education, career training and lifelong learning is the goal of The CUNY Critical Thinking Skills Initiative (CTSI), a pilot program of information literacy and digital communication coursework and employer engagement that […]
Critical Information Literacy: The Challenge of Practice
The 2011 LACUNY Instruction Committee Spring Event took place on April 22 at the CUNY Graduate Center. The invited speaker was James Elmborg, Associate Professor and Program Director of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. His presentation, “Critical Information Literacy: The Challenge of Practice,” was recorded and can be […]
