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Introduction

While the new ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education was filed by the ACRL Board in February, 2015, and was a major topic of discussion at ACRL 2015 in Portland, many academic librarians still question how to use the new Framework in library instruction. Since 2013, the CARLI Instruction Showcase has offered academic librarians from Illinois the opportunity to share tips, tricks, and techniques they have used in library instruction. This Toolkit maps those instructional activities taught at the CARLI Instruction Showcase to the Framework, with the hopes that instruction librarians can use these presentations as resources for creating and/or re-imagining their own library instruction to accord with the Frames.

Frames

The Frames are presented alphabetically. Instruction Showcase presentations are categorized by corresponding Knowledge Practices and Dispositions. 

Please note that while all presentations have been assigned to at least one knowledge practice, dispositions are only designated when given by presenters.

Authority is Constructed and Contextual

Information Creation as a Process

Information Has Value

Research as Inquiry

Scholarship as Conversation

Searching as Strategic Exploration

Annual Instruction Showcase Presentations

All Presentations

Specific years:

2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013

Other Tools

In addition to those presentations grouped under the Framework in the above six frames, there have been several presentations given at the CARLI Instruction Showcases that did not necessarily relate to the Knowledge Practices of a specific Frame. These presentations featured tools for instruction, assessment, and/or outreach techniques.

Remember the Research Consultation? Engaging the Framework in Thesis and Capstone Level Courses- Molly Beestrum, Columbia College, 2018

Reviewing Search Strategies in Education- Terry Huttenlock, Wheaton College, 2016

Self-Assessment of Library Instruction: ACRL Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators, Susan Avery, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2014

Oh Rats!- Mahrya Carncross, Western Illinois University, 2013

Just Get Started With Assessment- Meg Frazier & Megan Jaskowiak, Bradley University, 2014

Using Google Spreadsheets for Real-Time Assessment- Michelle Guittar, Northeastern Illinois University, 2013

A New Approach to the Library Instruction Session: Embedding Information Literacy Skills within an Academic Curriculum, Chelsea Van Riper, Principia College, 2014

Bibliography

Standards and Framework

Definitions & Discussions on Threshold Concepts

  • Barradell, S. (2013). The identification of threshold concepts: A review of theoretical complexities and methodological challenges. Higher Education, 65(2), 265-276. doi:10.1007/s10734-012-9542-3
  • Morgan, P.K.  (2015, Winter).  Pausing at the Threshold. Faculty Publications.  Paper 1258 http://digitalcommons.hope.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2306&context=faculty_publications
  • Meyer, J. & Land, R. (2003). Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practising within the Disciplines. Edinburgh: School of Education, University of Edinburgh. http://www.etl.tla.ed.ac.uk/docs/ETLreport4.pdf
  • O’Donnell, R. (2010, December). A Critique of the Threshold Concept Hypothesis and an Application in Economics.  University of Technology, Sydney. School of Economics and Finance. Working Paper No. 164.
  • Rowbottom, D.P. (2007). Demystifying threshold concepts. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 41(2), 263-270. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00554.x
  • Townsend, L., Hofer, A. R., Lin Hanick, S., and Brunetti, K. (2016) Identifying threshold concepts for information literacy: A Delphi study. Communications in Information Literacy, 10 (1), 23-49.
  • Townsend, L., Brunetti, K., Hofer, A.R.  (2011, July).  Threshold Concepts and Information Literacy.  portal: Libraries and the Academy, 11(3), 853-869.  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pla/summary/v011/11.3.townsend.html

Critique/Discussion of the Framework

 

Incorporating into our teaching: Assessment/Learning Objectives/Case Studies

 

Bibliographies Providing More Sources

  • Association of College & Research Libraries.  (2015, February 2).  Appendix 3: Sources for Further Reading, Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframeworkapps#appendix3
    Identifies the seminal research related to threshold concepts as well as other approaches to information literacy learning.
  • University College London. Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.  Threshold Concepts: Undergraduate Teaching, Postgraduate Training, and Professional Development; A Short Introduction and Bibliography.  Retrieved from http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/thresholds.html

Instruction Activities- Selected Titles

Instruction Activities- Library of Congress Subject Headings