Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians—e-book

Hazel McClure Patricia Bravender Gayle Schaub

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2015

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ACRL

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264

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Description
Table of Contents
About the Authors

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.

Editors' Preface………………………………………………………………………..
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………

Chapter 1 Scholarship as Conversation.....................................................................
   The Conversational Nature of Sources………………………………………..               Andrea Baer
   Using Information as a Springboard to Research……………………………..
       Emily Frigo and Jessalyn Richter
   Mapping Scholarly Conversation……………………………………………..
       Kathleen Anne Langan
   Crafting a Credible Message………………………………………………….
       Debbie Morrow
   Starting Points: The Role of Blogs in Scholarly Conversation………………
       Brandon West

Chapter 2 Research as Inquiry……………………………………………………...
   Flawed Questions: Tools for Inquiry…………………………………………
       Smita Avasthi
   Crime Scene Investigation as an Analogy for Scholarly Inquiry…………….
       Robert Farrell
   The Research Discussion…………………………………………………….
       Charissa Jefferson
   Developing a Research Question: Topic Selection Lesson Plan…………….
       Kevin Michael Klipfel
   The Connection between Personal and Academic Research………………..
       Sarah Naumann & Sami Lange

Chapter 3 Authority is Constructed and Contextual…………………………….
   Evaluating Information Sources…………………………………………….
       Robert Farrell
   Determining the Relevance and Reliability of Information Sources……….
       Nancy Fawley
   Establishing Evaluation Criteria……………………………………………
       Steven Hoover
   Non-Scholarly Formats as Research Tools…………………………………
       Rachel M. Minkin
   Scholarly/Non-Scholarly…………………………………………………...
       Jo Angela Oehrli and Emily Hamstra

Chapter 4 Information Creation as a Process…………………………………..
   Using Sources to Support a Claim…………………………………………
       Dani Brecher
   Information Life Cycle…………………………………………………….
       Toni M. Carter and Todd Aldridge
   Tracing Information over Time……………………………………………
       Xan Goodman

Chapter 5 Searching as Strategic Exploration………………………………….
   From Nothing to Something: Transforming the "Failed" Search…………
       Ika Datig
   Context through Citation………………………………………………….
       Jenny Fielding
   What is a Database?....................................................................................
       Samantha Godbey, Sue Wainscott and Xan Goodman
   Who Cares? Understanding the Human Production of Information…….
       Rebecca Kuglitsch
   Password: Keyword Edition……………………………………………...
       Melissa Langridge
   Approaching Problems Like a Professional……………………………...
       Melissa Mallon
   Databases vs. Search Engines Game……………………………………..
       Elizabeth Martin and Rebecca Daly
   Keywording………………………………………………………………
       Cate Calhoun Oravet
   Framing a Topic for Library Research…………………………………..
       Melissa Browne, Caitlin Plovnick, Cathy Palmer, and Richard Caldwell
   Systems of Organization………………………………………………..
       Pete Ramsey and Stephen "Mike" Kiel

Chapter 6 Information Has Value…………………………………………….
   Gray Areas in Plagiarism Cases…………………………………………
       Smita Avasthi
   The Who, What, and Why of the Creative Commons…………………..
       Rebecca Bliquez and Jane Van Galen
   Recognizing Plagiarism…………………………………………………
       Patricia Bravender and Gayle Schaub
   Plagiarism v. Copyright Infringement………………………………….
       Patricia Bravender
   Louder than Words: Using Infographics to Teach the Value of
       Information And Authority……………………………………..
       Hazel McClure and Christopher Toth
   Ethical Use of Information in Presentations……………………………..
       Debbie Morrow

Lessons with Overlapping Information Literacy Threshold Concepts………
Appendix………………………………………………………………………….
   Lesson Handouts………………………………………………………….
   ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education………
About the Editors…………………………………………………………………
Contributors……………………………………………………………………………
Recommended Reading………………………………………………………

Hazel McClure

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

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.

Gayle Schaub

Gayle Schaub is the Liberal Arts Librarian 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.

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