Information Literacy Commons^™

Data Gathering Kickoff Lesson For Consulting Project, Samantha Porter, Stephanie Farne

New England Library Instruction Group

This is a one-shot instruction session taught to upperclassmen in a Strategic Management Course working on a group mock-consulting project. We introduce them to potential sources of information for the secondary research component of their project including company, industry and market research resources. There are three parts to the lesson plan: 1) a beach ball activity (which we learned about at an ACRL NEC Annual Conference 2018) to introduce them to different information source types, including discussion of information literacy principles; 2) a brief introduction to the database sources; and 3) a group workshop activity.

Critically Looking At An Article: A Group Effort, Carrie Salazar, Iris Jahng

New England Library Instruction Group

Objective:

Analyze a scholarly article to examine how they use sources, what do they refer to, examine the language and tone of the articles and how to brainstorm research ideas from an article

Instructions:

All the groups are given the same article but different sets of questions. In your groups, answer as many of the questions as you can and choose someone (or more than one person) to report out the questions you answered. This way, we all have an idea what the article is and the different ways you could approach looking at an article. Find your groups by …

A Mindful Role Of Questions In Teaching, Judith S. Pinnolis

New England Library Instruction Group

Judith S. Pinnolis, Associate Director, Instruction and Engagement at Berklee College of Music/ The Boston Conservatory presented on the importance of interactive dialogue with students and using questions as a means of transcendence in order for students to reach new academic levels and achieve high-quality outcomes.

I Search: A Reflection On The Importance Of A Personal Connection, Eric Shannon, Leslie Inglis, Tracy Mendham

New England Library Instruction Group

This session, led by two librarians and an adjunct faculty member, described the benefits of replacing a traditional research paper with an I Search paper (a more informal first person research narrative) for students taking a first year inquiry course. An I Search paper facilitates student learning by encouraging students to select a topic that piques their interest and places the focus on students’ personal research journeys. Although this assignment was designed for a semester-long credit-bearing course, we discussed ways to incorporate aspects of this assignment into a library one-shot.

Decolonizing Databases: A Scalable Critical Pedagogy Activity, Emery Shriver, Lori Dubois

New England Library Instruction Group

Inspired by Safiya Umoja Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression, essays and lesson plans in Critical Library Pedagogy (Nicole Pagowsky and Kelly McElroy, eds.), and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, this presentation described a critical pedagogy activity that interrogates systems of oppression in library research tools and challenges students to reflect on the emotional aspects of their research experience. We discussed how we have modified the activity for different courses and disciplines, classroom settings, and class session lengths. This activity is suitable for librarians who are beginning to consider how to incorporate critical pedagogy into their teaching.

No Zombies Here!​: An Inquiry-Based Learning Approach To An Embedded Librarian Project, Sam Boss, Kristi J. Castleberry

New England Library Instruction Group

Since 2017, a library director and English professor have been collaborating on an embedded librarian project for a required Critical Thinking seminar. Our guiding concept is inquiry-based learning, and we have seen students connect with information literacy more deeply as we encourage them to explore information resources and to consider what scholarly conversation means to them. Our goal is to seamlessly blend elements of the ACRL Framework with the learning objectives and content of the seminar through hands-on activities related to research and writing assignments. Tying the Framework to ongoing projects has resulted in a higher level of engagement and …

Placing Students' Questions At The Center: Engaging Students With Archival Materials, Laura Hibbler, Chloe Morse-Harding

New England Library Instruction Group

This interactive session presented a student-centered approach to archival instruction using a modified version of the Question Formulation Technique (QFT). Developed by Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana (2011), the QFT is an instructional technique which guides students in developing questions, improving upon those questions, and identifying which questions they feel are important.

Reimagining The One-Shot - A Student-Centered Approach For Introducing First-Year Students To The Library, Alissa Link

New England Library Instruction Group

This session explored how a traditional library instruction session was adapted to give students a richer and more interactive learning experience leading to the expansion of a collaboration between an introductory biology class and the library. The session detailed the adaption of an existing lesson plan, creation of an asynchronous scavenger hunt, and addition of a student-centered, hands-on assignment.

To encourage self-driven learning, the library instruction session was redesigned to include hands-on, in-class components and an asynchronous scavenger hunt. Both changes were enthusiastically received by the course faculty.

The end result of the adapted curriculum for the introductory biology course …

Recording Transcript: Backward Design For Librarians, New England Library Instruction Group

New England Library Instruction Group

Full transcript of the webinar to accompany the recording.

Slides: Backward Design For Librarians, Michael Goudzwaard

New England Library Instruction Group

Slides for Mike Goudzwaard's Backward Design for Librarians webinar, NELIG's 2019 spring program.