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Using internal grant to foster faculty-librarian collaboration

As colleges and universities begin to globalize their curriculums and to include global readiness in their institutional missions, New Jersey City University (NJCU) has provided grants that strongly encourage faculty and librarians to collaborate on…

Tags: Collaboration, Curriculum, Faculty, Information literacy, Librarian

Position: 273 (170 views)

Designing flipped information literacy sessions with the Assessment-as-Learning Model

This presentation will focus on how an information literacy librarian teamed up with a Biochemistry professor and designed two flipped information literacy sessions to teach undergraduates how to read and find primary literature. We used the…

Tags: Assessment-as-Learning Model, CALA, CALA Midwest Chapter, CALA Midwest Chapter 2016 Annual Program, Information literacy, Information Literacy Competency Standards

Position: 227 (182 views)

The Effectiveness of a University’s Single-Session Information Literacy Instruction

Purpose – The purpose of this paper it to determine the effectiveness of “single‐session” information literacy instruction as it was integrated into the curriculum of a general education course at Monmouth University, New Jersey.

Tags: Academic Libraries, Assessment, Information literacy, Library instruction

Position: 95 (211 views)

Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis of Assessing Student Information Literacy Skills: The Power of Librarian-Faculty Collaborations

Librarians at the Moore Library of Rider University conducted a focus group with 12 undergraduate students during the summer of 2011 and modified an online test
used for determining students’ information literacy (IL) skills in required composition…

Tags: Assessment, Focus Group, Information literacy, Librarian-faculty Collaboration, Multiple Correct Answer Questions, Post-tests, Pre-tests, Qualitative Analysis, Quantitative Analysis

Position: 229 (181 views)

Four Pedagogical Approaches in Helping Students Learn Information Literacy Skills

Rider University librarians heightened their collaboration with classroom faculty to teach students in core writing classes information literacy (IL) skills during IL instruction (ILI) sessions. This quasi-experimental study assessed four pedagogical…

Tags: Assessment, College students, Information literacy, Instruction, Pedagogy, Teaching methods

Position: 237 (178 views)

Information literacy online tutorials: An introduction to rationale and technological tools in tutorial creation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide the findings of a survey of current technologies used in creating information literacy online tutorials in academic libraries. It also aims to inform readers of the technological tools available to…

Tags: Communication technologies, Information literacy, Library instruction, Tutorials

Position: 103 (209 views)

Enhancing Academic Library Information Literacy Instructions in the Digital Age

For over a decade, hundreds and thousands of researches have been made to initialize information literacy programs and leverage information literacy instructions. Facing up to the new information explosion in the digital age, many academic institutes…

Tags: Academic Instruction, Information literacy, Library Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Scale Effectiveness, Scale Instruction

Position: 361 (157 views)

Rethinking Information Literacy Instructions in the Digital Age

Over twenty years ago, the American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Committee on Information Literacy defined information literacy. Since then, numerous scholarly papers have been published which explored the best approaches for improving…

Tags: Academic Learning, Information literacy, Information Literacy Competency Standards, Information Literacy Instruction, Library Literacy

Position: 322 (163 views)

Captivating the students: online library instruction for a psychology class and lessons learned

This paper presents the first attempt of teaching library instruction via a Web-based tutorial for a Psychology and Law online course taught during the summer of 2009 at Rider University. Students received information literacy instruction through the…

Tags: Captivate, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Information literacy, Online Tutorials, Psychology

Position: 273 (170 views)

Faculty-librarian collaboration in improving information literacy skills of educational opportunity program students

This study aims to examine the instruction of basic information literacy (IL) skills taught to the socio‐economically disadvantaged students in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) at Rider University in summer 2011. The study set out to…

Tags: Assessment, Disadvantaged groups, Faculty‐librarian collaboration, Information literacy, Library instruction, Socio‐economically disadvantaged college students, United States of America

Position: 217 (185 views)

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