Course-integrated instruction sessions are a great way to help your students discover the most relevant sources for their class research projects and develop their critical thinking and information evaluation skills.
Contact your library liaison to discuss the best option for your instructional needs.
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Submit a request by completing the Library Orientation Request Form. You will be contacted by Analu Josephides, Reference & Instruction Librarian, to assist with making arrangements.
Class guides help students find resources for a subject or single class assignment and provide a wealth of research support that your students can access 24/7. Links to guides can be integrated into your Canvas course site or your own class website.
Check out this example of a Libguide on Researching Controversial Issues or this one on searching for Primary Sources & Archives.
Explore all of the library's available guides (with more to come): Library Guides
In 2015, the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, in an effort to better integrate concepts of "metaliteracy" and "threshold concepts," which offers a renewed vision of information literacy as an overarching set of abilities in which we are all consumers and creators of information. These concepts demand behavioral, affective, cognitive, and metacognitive engagement with the information ecosystem. "The rapidly changing higher education environment, along with the dynamic and often uncertain information ecosystem in which all of us work and live, require new attention to be focused on foundational ideas about that ecosystem." The Framework is organized into six frames, each consisting of a concept central fo information literacy, a set of knowledge practices, and a set of dispositions.
