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Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School

Information literacy

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The Misinformation Pandemic: Who Can You Trust?, Elisa Acosta, Susan Archambault, John Jackson, Alexis Weiss Jul 2021

The Misinformation Pandemic: Who Can You Trust?, Elisa Acosta, Susan Archambault, John Jackson, Alexis Weiss

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

During the Trump presidency, “fake news” was a term often used as a synonym for “news that comes to a conclusion that I disagree with.” The focus of this session is not fake news, but rather how to spot the news misinformation and disinformation that students are so vulnerable to. Today’s news landscape is complex and largely unregulated, and students need to learn how to critically analyze the news they receive in order to make informed decisions and participate in the sharing of information in a responsible and ethical way. Presenters will share the lesson plan from an interactive workshop …


Research As Inquiry, Social Justice, And The Particularist Challenges Of Religious Traditions In An Age Of Terror And Hate, Desirae Zingarelli-Sweet Jun 2017

Research As Inquiry, Social Justice, And The Particularist Challenges Of Religious Traditions In An Age Of Terror And Hate, Desirae Zingarelli-Sweet

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

No abstract provided.


What's Social Justice Got To Do With Information Literacy?, Lisa Burgert, Margaret Brown-Salazar, Elisa Acosta, Joe Garity Mar 2017

What's Social Justice Got To Do With Information Literacy?, Lisa Burgert, Margaret Brown-Salazar, Elisa Acosta, Joe Garity

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

Social justice is a critical component of information literacy (IL). As librarians we have an obligation to critique the power structures that control information. Instruction librarians at four medium to large, private, Catholic institutions; collaborated to develop IL instruction grounded in social justice. The project involved applying a social justice construct to IL; creating lesson plans and instructional strategies; assessment; and sharing lessons in an open access database.


Taste Testing For Two: Using Formative And Summative Assessment, Elisa Acosta, Katherine Donaldson Jan 2017

Taste Testing For Two: Using Formative And Summative Assessment, Elisa Acosta, Katherine Donaldson

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

This activity was created to introduce first-year students to library resources they can use for their annotated bibliography assignment. In pairs, students are assigned a task card that requires them to find an information source. After finding a source meeting the criteria of their task card, the student teams input their answers into a Google Form. Formative assessment takes place during class, allowing the librarian to modify instruction on-the-spot based on the responses from the form.Summative assessment takes place at the end of the semester, when a rubric is applied to a sample of student responses from the activity. This …


Patience, Persistence, And Process: Embedding A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Program Across The Curriculum, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Susan Archambault, Elisa Acosta, Lindsey Mclean Jan 2016

Patience, Persistence, And Process: Embedding A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Program Across The Curriculum, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Susan Archambault, Elisa Acosta, Lindsey Mclean

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

This article discusses strategies for academic libraries to collaborate with faculty to institutionalize important information literacy training. The discussion is framed around a case study of a medium-sized academic institution in the United States that successfully embedded information literacy concepts into course-level learning outcomes for three required courses in a new core curriculum.


The Campaign For Information Literacy: Politics, Personalities, & Perseverance, Elisa Acosta Apr 2013

The Campaign For Information Literacy: Politics, Personalities, & Perseverance, Elisa Acosta

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

In early 2010, Loyola Marymount University (LMU) adopted information literacy as an Undergraduate Learning Outcome. How did this transpire? Several strategies were used by librarians to promote information literacy, including the development of effective working relationships with the Office of Assessment and the Center for Teaching Excellence. Librarians also implemented several additional “High-Impact Educational Practices.” As a result, information literacy is now a new core curriculum outcome and faculty can apply for grant money to integrate information literacy into their courses. The second half of this presentation will describe how LMU assesses information literacy for WASC accreditation. The LMU librarians …


The Rubric: An Assessment Odyssey., Elisa Slater Acosta, Susan Archambault Mar 2013

The Rubric: An Assessment Odyssey., Elisa Slater Acosta, Susan Archambault

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

No abstract provided.


Solving The Rubrics Cube: Using Assessment To Sharpen Library Instruction, Elisa Acosta, Susan Gardner Jan 2010

Solving The Rubrics Cube: Using Assessment To Sharpen Library Instruction, Elisa Acosta, Susan Gardner

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

Loyola Marymount University's (LMU) Reference Department designed a rubric to measure student learning outcomes for freshman English. Students sequentially completed an "English 110 Library Research Worksheet” during library instruction. The rubric which is set up to analyze learning outcomes from parts of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education is applied to collected student worksheets. The Department undertook a multi-step process to try to calibrate the rubric and achieve consensus estimates of inter-rater reliability. During fall 2009, reference & instruction librarians collected 755 worksheets and graded a random sample of 100 students. This poster session will present the …