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“The Times They Are A’Changing:”

Information Literacy Instruction, Faculty Ownership, and Student Success

Alexandra Hamlett & Meagan Lacy

Guttman Community College, CUNY

LOEX 2019

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The problem

Librarians have the IL expertise, but students learn IL best when it is situated in disciplinary communities of practice.

Source: Wikimedia.org

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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):

1,066 total enrollment
96% between the ages of 18-22
53% female; 47% male
Hispanic Serving Institution

FYE Program:

Remediation folded into for-credit interdisciplinary courses
Courses are taught by an instructional team
Students attend classes in cohorts, fulltime

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How should we focus our energy so that we’re not just, you know….

Source: Ron Armstrong/Wikimedia.org

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The Curriculum Enhancement Project

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Give them a prize!

Image Source: Kevin Harber/Flickr

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Faculty Incentives*:

Money ($1,000 each)
A nice line on their CV
Better student work to grade

Image Source: SalFalko/Flickr

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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.

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Syllabi Review

(2 months before semester starts)

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Syllabus before...

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Faculty PD

(1 month before semester starts)

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Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Bestbudbrian.

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Steal our toolkit at https://bit.ly/2PSj9n6

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Concept Mapping Lesson

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Evaluating Sources

C.A.R.D.I.O Handout

Currency
Authority
Relevance
Documentation
Information Type
Objectivity

Reflection Question: Why this source??

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Revised syllabus...

Notable Changes:

Concept mapping / brainstorming
Scholarship as conversation
Creating keywords
Evaluation sources
Databases
Citing sources

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Follow-up on revised syllabus….

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Assessment

(end of semester)

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Student Survey Responses

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Future Directions

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Questions??

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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