The Information Literacy Framework: Case Studies of Successful Implementation (Association for Library and Information Science Education)

✍ Scribed by Heidi Julien, Melissa Gross, Don Latham

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Edition: Illustrated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book helps demystify how to incorporate ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education into information literacy instruction in higher education as well as how to teach the new Framework to pre-service librarians as part of their professional preparation. This authoritative volume copublished by the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) demonstrates professional practice by bringing together current case studies from librarians in higher education who are implementing the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education as well as cases from educators in library and information science, who are working to prepare their pre-service students to practice in the new instructional environment. Instructional librarians, administrators, and educators will benefit from the experiences the people on the ground who are actively working to make the transition to the Framework in their professional practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Figures, Tables, and Textboxes
Foreword
Preface
PartI. PREPARING TO USE THE FRAMEWORK
Ch01. Strategies for Mapping Information Literacy Threshold Concepts to Course Objectives in Political Science
Ch02. Faculty Workshops: Incorporating the Framework and Embedding Information Literacy in Undergraduate Courses
Ch03. Are They There Yet? Determining Student Mastery of Learning Outcomes Based on the ACRL Framework
Ch04. Finding Expertise in Your Own Backyard: Creating Communities of Practice to Support Learning about the Framework
Ch05. From Standards to Threshold Concepts, Knowledge Practices, and Learner Dispositions: Rethinking Formal Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education
Ch06. An Idea That Sells Itself: The Framework as a Partnership Guide and Faculty Marketing Tool
PartII. CASE STUDIES OF INSTRUCTION USING THE FRAMEWORK
Ch07. Teaching the Framework Using an Online Tutorial
Ch08. Designing a First-Year Foundation Program around the Framework
Ch09. The Framework as Pedagogical Tool: Teaching Source Integration
Ch10. Redesigning a Credit-Bearing Course using the ACRL Information Literacy Framework
Ch11. The Framework and the Context: Refocusing Information Literacy at a Caribbean University
Ch12. The Librarian’s Journey Begins: Finding Pedagogical Authority and Creativity in the ACRL Framework
PartIII. EDUCATING FOR THE FRAMEWORK
Ch13. Flexible Frameworks, New Paradigms: Examining Beliefs about the ACRL Framework to Grow Teaching Practice
Ch14. Chandler-Gilbert Community College Case Study
Ch15. Exploring Metaliterate Learning through the Frames of Information Literacy
Ch16. Extending the Framework for the Benefit of Praxis: A Strategic Literacy-Based Approach to Diversity Education (SLADE)
Ch17. Teaching Future Librarian Educators Using the ACRL Framework: A New Graduate-Level iSchoolTeaching Certificate
Ch18. Rethinking the Reference and Instruction Curriculum Using the Integrated Threshold ConceptKnowledge Framework
Index
About the Editors and Contributors