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Desperately Seeking Funding: Library Guides To Student Funding, Rochelle Lundy, Reilly Curran

Library Faculty Scholarship

Purpose: This study examines online research guides as a measure of academic library support for students seeking educational funding opportunities.

Design/methodology/approach: The library websites of 38 members of a regional academic library consortium were examined for guides that address funding for educational purposes. Guide content was manually reviewed. Information regarding institutional characteristics was gathered from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

Findings: Despite relatively few reports of educational funding support in the library literature, online guides exist at 42% of studied institutions. However, few guides are comprehensive and many lack features that promote discoverability. Instructional content — guidance, …

“This Is What Learning Looks Like!” Backward Design And The Framework In First Year Writing, Jenny Mills, Claire Wiley, Judy Williams

Library Faculty Scholarship

The Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education calls on librarians to teach complex concepts rather than discrete skills, but many librarians have struggled with implementing such teaching. This article reports on a revised lesson for information literacy instruction in First Year Writing classes, created using Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s backward design framework. Wiggins and McTighe’s model focuses on teaching “enduring understandings” and designing lessons and assessments that provide evidence of student learning. The authors employed a scaffolded approach to teaching the concept “searching as strategic exploration,” providing successive levels of temporary support to move the students toward greater …