Making it Real: Helping Faculty Connect Students’ Academic and Professional Information Needs
Publication Date
2015
Selected Works Department
Libraries
Document Type
Presentation
Abstract
Students moving into the workforce often struggle with the complexities of information in the “real world.” The academic research strategies that librarians help develop are not always straightforwardly applicable beyond the students’ time at the institution. How can librarians address this gap, either through their own instruction or by helping faculty design assignments that do? This presentation will discuss the information skills that employers say graduates need and map those skills to the new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, focusing particularly on four threshold concepts: (1.) Authority Is Constructed and Contextual, (2.) Information Creation as a Process, (3.) Research as Inquiry, and (4.) Searching as Strategic Exploration. This session will model how to begin this conversation with faculty toward a goal of developing library instruction sessions for courses that focus on experiential and/or applied learning.
File Name
Price018_FT
Recommended Citation
Price, Elizabeth, "Making it Real: Helping Faculty Connect Students’ Academic and Professional Information Needs" (2015). Selected Works. 551.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/selectedworks/551
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0rhFQOhTZunY2EwUlNmVjNEYXc/view
