High Impact Librarianship: A Showcase Of Collaborative And Experiential Learning Initiatives, Gayle Schaub, Hazel Mcclure, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra, Mark Schaub, Vinicius Lima
May 2018
High Impact Librarianship: A Showcase Of Collaborative And Experiential Learning Initiatives, Gayle Schaub, Hazel Mcclure, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra, Mark Schaub, Vinicius Lima
Gayle Schaub
Librarians and disciplinary faculty showcase four collaborative projects that have provided students with a high-impact learning experiences in information literacy. These projects cover a range of methods, including a service-learning program that allows education students a chance to teach information literacy skills to a cohort of public school students, a summer scholars research program, the creation of an open education resource by a writing class, and a class built around designing materials to teach college students information literacy terminology. These projects achieve many of the practices identified by the Association of American Colleges and University as high-impact learning practices.
Information Literacy Threshold Concepts And The Acrl Framework For Information Literacy For Higher Education, Gayle Schaub, Hazel Mcclure
Mar 2016
Information Literacy Threshold Concepts And The Acrl Framework For Information Literacy For Higher Education, Gayle Schaub, Hazel Mcclure
Gayle Schaub
In this session, McClure and Schaub, editors of Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians will discuss the idea of threshold concepts and how conceptual teaching has been transformative in their work as information literacy instructors and library liaisons. The editors began their research in threshold concepts as a way to focus on the core, elemental ideas rather than procedural skills in library instruction. At the same time, the use and discussion of information literacy threshold concepts increased in the United States as a variety of thinkers and organizations published research and incorporated threshold concepts into high profile …
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 …
Sowing The Seeds Of Success: Community Collaboration For College Readiness, Gayle Schaub, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra
Mar 2015
Sowing The Seeds Of Success: Community Collaboration For College Readiness, Gayle Schaub, Lindy Scripps-Hoekstra
Gayle Schaub
The challenge of creating information literate college students begins long before freshmen enter the university classroom. This poster details a unique collaboration between a university, a community foundation, and a public school to offer middle school information literacy workshops, using threshold concepts as a basis for its curriculum. This approach to community engagement offers ideas others may want to consider about moving collaborative information literacy initiatives beyond the campus.
Artists, Archives, And Academics: Civic Studio At Gvsu, Gayle Schaub
Apr 2014
Artists, Archives, And Academics: Civic Studio At Gvsu, Gayle Schaub
Gayle Schaub
Civic Studio, an applied experimental art studio project at GVSU takes art students into a Grand Rapids neighborhood to engage with the city’s history, encourage a sense of community, understand civic responsibility, and create a context for art that reflects a sense of place within society.
Each student researches a square block of the city. That’s where the librarians come in – one from GVSU, one from GRPL. Together, we help students delve into the physical, digital, and demographical resources that will inform their art.
Teaching Threshold Concepts: Practical Plans For Meaningful Instruction In Information Literacy, Gayle Schaub, Hazel Mcclure, Patricia Bravender
Mar 2014
Teaching Threshold Concepts: Practical Plans For Meaningful Instruction In Information Literacy, Gayle Schaub, Hazel Mcclure, Patricia Bravender
Gayle Schaub
With the unique constraints that instruction librarians face in the classroom, we often rely on point-and-click instruction sessions that do not always communicate essential information literacy concepts. This program identifies key threshold and core concepts and correlates them with ACRL information literacy standards. The presenters highlight lesson plans that promote critical thinking and engaged learning and offer an opportunity for participants to collaborate in the creation of a standard-aligned lesson plan.
Schaub, Gayle, Enriching Library Service To International Students: Current Practices And Perceived Needs, Gayle Schaub
Apr 2013
Schaub, Gayle, Enriching Library Service To International Students: Current Practices And Perceived Needs, Gayle Schaub
Gayle Schaub
Current practices for library outreach to international students includes an orientation at the beginning of each semester, individual consultations with librarians (initiated by the student), and University Libraries representation on a newly-formed globalization task force. The results of this study are intended to better inform the task force, and guide the formation of new materials and practices specifically tailored for the needs of international and L2 library users.
