Information Literacy Resources for Faculty

This books includes descriptions of each of the six information literacy frames followed by practical lessons for each. It formed the basis for the Faculty Learning Community offered at FGCU and is highly recommended for quickly implementing new ideas.

The earlier version of the above book, this one is based on the previous competency standards that preceded the new framework but still contains a lot of practical and relevant ideas for activities and lessons that support information literacy to incorporate into your course.

This book provides specific strategies for integrating contemporary information literacy competencies into courses intended for novice researchers. It discusses the necessity and value of incorporating information literacy into first-year curricula and provides a variety of practical, targeted strategies for doing so.

This book transforms education into an interactive practice and discusses students’ research ability inadequacies in higher education, the role of disciplinary thinking in research processes, and faculty understanding of research processes.

Research has shown that in order to develop information literacy skills, students must be given repeated opportunities throughout their college years to acquire and exercise these skills in their daily lives. This book is filled with information and practical examples from a wide variety of institutions that show how information literacy programs and partnerships can transform the higher education teaching and learning environments.

This books includes descriptions of each of the six information literacy frames followed by practical lessons for each. It formed the basis for the Faculty Learning Community offered at FGCU and is highly recommended for quickly implementing new ideas.

Strategies and techniques for teaching first-year students and those in distance learning programs. Proven approaches to teaching students in specific programs of study, including: English Literature, Art and Art History, Film Studies, History, Psychology, Science, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Hospitality, Business, Music, Anthropology, and Engineering.

Includes chapters on informal, low-stakes writing, developing complex research skills over time, teaching information literacy so the knowledge transfers from one contex tto another.

Unpacks the disciplinary implications for information literacy and writing studies as they encounter one another in theory and practice, during a time when "fact" or "truth" is less important than fitting a predetermined message. Topics include reading and writing through the lens of information literacy, curriculum design, specific writing tasks, transfer, and assessment.

Topics include: working with varied student populations, teaching information literacy and writing in upper-level general education and disciplinary courses, specialized approaches for graduate courses, and preparing graduate assistants to teach information literacy.