LibGuides: Information Literacy: For Faculty: Teaching Information Literacy

Resources for Teaching Information Literacy

Though you may not realize, you are probably already teaching your students some components of information literacy! When you teach students how to assess sources for research projects, how to decide where to research, and even how to cite sources, you are helping them build a foundation of information literacy. With the rising prominence of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news, now might be a good time to incorporate even more explicit lessons on how to cultivate information literacy. Though hopefully all of the information in this guide is useful to you, here are some resources directly related to teaching information literacy.

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Library Instruction Sessions

Librarians can help your students learn the best ways to find and evaluate information by providing library instruction tailored to your course. Librarians can create custom-designed sessions to help your students learn about specific resources and research strategies. Request an instruction session using our Library Instruction Request Form. For more information on Library Instruction offerings, visit our Faculty Library Guide.

Online Tools and Organizations

ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework offered here is called a framework intentionally because it is based on a cluster of interconnected core concepts, with flexible options for implementation, rather than on a set of standards or learning outcomes, or any prescriptive enumeration of skills. At the heart of this Framework are conceptual understandings that organize many other concepts and ideas about information, research, and scholarship into a coherent whole.