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Collaborating Beyond The Campus: University Librarians In The K-12 Classroom, Gayle Schaub, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra Sep 2015

Collaborating Beyond The Campus: University Librarians In The K-12 Classroom, Gayle Schaub, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra

Gayle Schaub

The challenge of developing information literate college students begins long before freshmen enter the university classroom. This presentation will detail a unique collaboration between academic librarians, an education professor, public librarians, and a middle school teacher to provide foundational information literacy workshops for sixth-grade students.


Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts, Gayle Schaub, Hazel Mcclure Jul 2015

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts, Gayle Schaub, Hazel Mcclure

Gayle Schaub

Editors/authors of recently-published book of threshold concept based lesson plans will discuss creating plans for instruction that use information literacy threshold concepts as their foundations.


Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans For Librarians, Gayle Schaub, Patricia Bravender, Hazel Mcclure May 2015

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans For Librarians, Gayle Schaub, Patricia Bravender, Hazel Mcclure

Gayle Schaub

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. The lessons in this book, created by teaching librarians across the country, are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (2015). This volume offers concrete and specific ways of teaching the threshold concepts that are central to the ACRL Framework and is …