Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson - Softcover

Bravender, Patricia; McClure, Hazel; Schaub, Gayle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838987710 ISBN 13: 9780838987711

Publisher: Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2015

Synopsis

Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning.
It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. The lessons in this book, created by teaching librarians across the country, are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (2015). This volume offers concrete and specific ways of teaching the threshold concepts that are central to the ACRL Framework and is suitable for all types of academic libraries, high school libraries, as well as a pedagogical tool for library and information schools.

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About the Author

Gayle Schaub is the liaison librarian to the Art and Design, Modern Languages, and Psychology departments at Grand Valley State University Libraries. She holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the American University in Cairo. Gayle s other research interests include library services to international students and information literacy in K-12 education.

Hazel McClure is the liaison librarian to English, Writing, and Environmental Studies at Grand Valley State University. She holds an MFA from Saint Mary s College of California and an MLS from State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research interests are collaboration with disciplinary faculty, threshold concepts, and poetry publishing models.

Patricia Bravender is a professional programs librarian and liaison to Legal Studies, Criminal Justice, and Hospitality and Tourism Management at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the School of Criminal Justice at GVSU where she supervises the internship programs in legal studies. She holds an MLIS from Wayne State University. In addition to threshold concepts, her research interests are information privacy and censorship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Assoc of College & Research Libraries
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0838987710
• ISBN 13: 9780838987711
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 251