Collaborative Information Literacy Assessments

Collaboration is the key to ensuring that information literacy is a part of every student's educational experience. This new collection from Trudi Jacobson (ACRL Information Literacy Instruction Section Publication Award Winner, 2005) and Thomas P. Mackey brings together proven information literacy collaborations that will change the way your library works with campus faculty, departments, and other instructional units. Chapter contributors, including Elizabeth Dupuis (Head of Instructional Services, UC Berkeley), Lijuan Xu (Library Instruction Coordinator, Lafayette College), Christy Stevens (Instructional Services Librarian, University of West Georgia}, and more, explore working with undergraduate and graduate students; partnering with humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences (English Literature, Chicano/Latino Studies, Political Science, Environmental Studies, Biology) instructors; integrating instruction into first-year writing and research projects; and utilizing Web, video, and other new technologies. Each chapter is written by the collaborating librarian and faculty member and provides a sample model, a description of the lesson's goals and process, and an assessment of the model's success. With these winning models, you can make information literacy a part of every student's learning experience!

Why teach information literacy, technology literacy and discipline-specific research skills separately when teaching them together fires students' imaginations, improves learning, visibly demonstrates the value of your library's unique services and expertise to faculty, and lets you reach students who might never otherwise walk through the library's doors? The first book on teaching information literacy with technology across the curriculum is full of real-world examples and lesson plans that will help you put together a cutting-edge, technology-based course for your institution. Each chapter is co-written by a librarian-faculty member team involved in a collaborative teaching-with-technology project. An overview of the literature will help you explain the value of this dynamic approach to faculty and administration. Every academic library will want to have a copy of this book, as will any faculty member involved in teaching information literacy.