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 …
Look Good When You're Googled: Creating And Optimizing Your Digital Identity, Amanda Izenstark
Dec 2013
Look Good When You're Googled: Creating And Optimizing Your Digital Identity, Amanda Izenstark
Amanda Izenstark
This is a pre-publication author manuscript of the final, published article.
Purpose: This paper describes techniques librarians can use to enhance their online presence
so that students, patrons, researchers, and prospective employers can locate them easily. It is
an extension of a presentation given at the Association of College and Research Libraries New
England Chapter Annual Conference held in Worcester, MA on May 9, 2014.
Design/methodology/approach: The presentation focused on a number of established and
emerging tools to share professional contact information and professional output, such as
Google, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, SlideShare, and ImpactStory, among others.
Findings: The audience of …
Creating Online Tutorials For Freshmen, Anne Grant
Jul 2013
Creating Online Tutorials For Freshmen, Anne Grant
Anne Grant
In the Fall of 2012, the teaching librarians at Clemson decided to move the freshman library experience online. Previously, over 200 workshops were provided each Fall semester for all incoming students and for the first time in 4 years, those workshops were replaced with online instruction. Join Anne Grant, instruction coordinator, as she talks about the way this change happened and hear about preliminary assessment data.
