“The Times They Are A’Changing:”
Information Literacy Instruction, Faculty Ownership, and Student Success
Alexandra Hamlett & Meagan Lacy
Guttman Community College, CUNY
LOEX 2019
The problem
Librarians have the IL expertise, but students learn IL best when it is situated in disciplinary communities of practice.
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How do we get faculty
to co-own information literacy?
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About Guttman
Opened August 20, 2012
Located (temporarily) in Midtown Manhattan
Student body(Fall 2017):
FYE Program:
How should we focus our energy so that we’re not just, you know….
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The Curriculum Enhancement Project
Give them a prize!
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Faculty Incentives*:
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The Fine Print...
*Librarians will review the instructors’ syllabi, create and tailor IL lessons and assignments, and suggest active learning strategies for the classroom. But librarians WILL NOT teach any one shots in their sections that semester.
Syllabi Review
(2 months before semester starts)
Syllabus before...
Faculty PD
(1 month before semester starts)
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Concept Mapping Lesson
Evaluating Sources
C.A.R.D.I.O Handout
Revised syllabus...
Notable Changes:
Follow-up on revised syllabus….
Assessment
(end of semester)
Student Survey Responses
Future Directions
Questions??
References
Badke, W. (2012). Teaching research processes: The faculty role in the development of skilled student researchers. Witney, UK:
Chandos Publishing.
Cowan, S., & Eva, N. (2016). Changing Our Aim: Infiltrating Faculty with Information Literacy. Communications in Information
Literacy, 10(2), 163–177. Retrieved from http://www.comminfolit.org
Farrell, R., & Badke, W. (2015). Situating information literacy in the disciplines. Reference Services Review, 43(2), 319–340.
Retrieved from https://academicworks.cuny.edu/le_pubs/78/
Smith, R. L., & Mundt, K.E. (1997). Philosophical shift: Teach the faculty to teach information literacy. Paper presented at the 8th
National Conference of the Association of College and Research. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/whitepapers/nashville/smith
The City University of New York Office of Academic Affairs. (2008). A new community college concept paper. New York: The City
University of New York. Retrieved from http://guttman.cuny.edu
Thank You!
alexandra.hamlett@guttman.cuny.edu
meagan.lacy@guttman.cuny.edu