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Information Literacy

2017

Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School

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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 …