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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.

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

Standards and Framework

• acrlframe@lists.ala.org: Join the discussion about the Frameworks, moderated by Sharon Mader. http://lists.ala.org/sympa/info/acrlframe
• Association of College and Research Libraries. (2015, February 2). Framework for information literacy for higher education. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework
• Association of College and Research Libraries. (2000, January 18). Information literacy competency standards for higher education. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency Rescinded by the ACRL Board of Directors on June 25, 2016.
• Hovious, A. (2015). Alignment charts for ACRL standards and proposed framework (Unpublished). Retrieved January 23, 2015 from https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wt5a2pYqblapfnSZoBBdo28EAgukUXbV0kdL5nSZ5UI/edit?pli=1
• Mader, S.  (2015, March 2).  Putting the Framework for Information Literacy into Action: Next Steps, ACRL Insider. Retrieved from http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/10071

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

• Beilen, I.  (2015, February 25).  In the Library with the Lead Pipe.  Retrieved from http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/beyond-the-threshold-conformity-resistance-and-the-aclr-information-literacy-framework-for-higher-education/ Includes several presentation examples of implementation
• Bombaro, C., Harris, P., & Odess-Harnish, K. (2016). A constellation to guide us. Reference Services Review, 44(4), 544-551. doi:10.1108/RSR-06-2016-0041 http://scholar.dickinson.edu/faculty_publications/501/
• Bombaro, C. (2016) The framework is elitist. Reference Services Review, 44(4). 552-563. doi: 10.1108/RSR-08-2016-0052 http://scholar.dickinson.edu/faculty_publications/500/ A criticism of the Framework and its implimentation by ACRL.
• Drabinski, E. (2016, September). Turning inward: Reading the framework through the six frames. College & Research Libraries News 77(8). 382-384.
• Farkas, M. (2016, October 18). Is the framework elitist? Is ACRL? Information Wants to be Free. Retrieved from http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2016/10/18/is-the-framework-elitist-is-acrl/ A response to Bombaro’s article.
• Farkas, M.  (2015, February 4) Framework? Standards? I’m keeping it local?”  Information Wants to be Free. http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2015/02/04/framework-standards-im-keeping-it-local/
• Fister, B.  (2015, January 22).  The Information Literacy Standards/Framework Debate, Library Babel Fish.  Retrieved from https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/information-literacy-standardsframework-debate
• Juskiewicz, S., & Cote, C.  (2015, February 17). Teaching Information Literacy to Undergraduate Students: Reflecting on the Past, Present and Future of Library Instruction.  Pacific Northwest Library Association Quarterly, 79(1).  Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.mtech.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=library_scholarship
• Pagowsky, N.  (2015, March 2).  Thoughts on ACRL’s New Draft Framework for ILCSHE.  Retrieved from http://pumpedlibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/03/thoughts-on-acrls-new-draft-framework.html
• Responding to the ACRL Draft Information Literacy Framework, Pegasus Librarian. (2015, April 15).  Retrieved from http://pegasuslibrarian.com/2014/04/responding-to-the-acrl-draft-information-literacy-framework.html Collective response from librarians at Carleton College and St Olaf College to the Framework TF.
• Rinne, N. A. (2017). The new Framework: a truth-less construction just waiting to be scrapped? Reference Services Review, 45(1), 54-66. doi:10.1108/RSR-06-2016-0039
• Wilkinson, L. (2014, June 19).  The Problem with Threshold Concepts, Sense and Reference: A Philosophical Library Blog.  Retrieved from https://senseandreference.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/the-problem-with-threshold-concepts/ Wilkinson resigned from the Framework Task Force and uses this blog to provide his objections to the threshold concept approach. Also provides links to many blog posts written during the drafting of the Framework.

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

• Alwan, A.  (2015, January 22). Threshold concepts & assessment.  Retrieved from https://dspace.aus.edu/xmlui/handle/11073/7680
• Bauder, J. & Rod, C. (2016). Crossing thresholds: Critical information literacy pedagogy and the ACRL framework. College & Undergraduate Libraries, 23(3). 252-264.
• Hofer, A.R.,  Lu, S., and Townsend, L.  (2015, April 10).  What’s the big idea?! Incorporating Threshold Concepts into Your Teaching Practice.  Keynote Address, 14th Annual Information Literacy Summit.
  • Watch the presentation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSahSjLBf-w&feature=youtu.be
• Hovious, A.  (2015, January 22). Part 2: ACRL Alignments – Current and Proposed.  Designer Librarian: a blog about instructional design and technology in libraries. Retrieved from https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/part-2-acrl-alignments-current-and-proposed/
• Lundstrom, K., Fagerheim, B. A., & Benson, E. (2014). Librarians and instructors developing student learning outcomes: Using frameworks to lead the process. Reference Services Review, 42(3). doi:10.1108/RSR-04-2014-0007
• Oakleaf, M. (2014).  A Roadmap for Assessing Student Learning Using the New Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.  Retrieved from http://meganoakleaf.info/framework.pdf
• Private Academic Library Network in Indiana (PALNI).  Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (LibGuide).  Includes links to webinars and videos including presentation at the 2015 IL Summit by Hofer, Lu, and Townsend.  Retrieved from http://libguides.palni.edu/ilframework

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

• Accardi, M.T., Drabinski, E., & Kumbier, A. (2010). Critical library instruction : theories and methods. Duluth, MN: Library Juice Press.
• Association of College & Research Libraries.  n.d.  ACRL Framework for information literacy sandbox : A platform and repository for sharing Framework materials.  Retrieved from http://sandbox.acrl.org/
• Bravender, P., McClure, H., & Schaub, G. (Eds.). (2015). Teaching information literacy threshold concepts : Lesson plans for librarians. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/all/vf/Record/15326226
• Buchanan, H. & McDonough, B.A. (2017). The one-shot library instruction survival guide. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/all/vf/Record/16404487
• Budd, J.M. (2009). Framing library instruction: A view from within and without. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/all/vf/Record/11012620
• Burkhardt, J. (2016). Teaching information literacy reframed: 50+ framework-based exercises for creating information-literate learners. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/all/vf/Record/16217441
• Burkhardt, J. M., MacDonald, M. C., & Rathemacher, A. J. (2010). Teaching information literacy: 50 standards-based exercises for college students. Chicago, IL: American Library Association. https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/all/vf/Record/11500497
• Calkins, K. & Kvenild, C. (Eds.). (2014). The embedded librarian's cookbook. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/all/vf/Record/14442389
• Fawley, N. & Krysak, N. (Eds.). (2016). The discovery tool cookbook: Recipes for successful lesson plans. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/all/vf/Record/16022943
• Instruction Section, Association of College & Research Libraries.  n.d.  PRIMO: Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online Database.  Retrieved from http://primodb.org/
• McClure, R. (Ed.). (2016). Rewired : Research-writing partnerships within the frameworks. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/all/vf/Record/16454980
• Pagowsky, N. & McElroy, K. Critical library pedagogy handbook. (2016). Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/all/vf/Record/16398627
• Pun, R., & Houlihan, M.  (Eds.).  (2017). The first-year experience cookbook.  Chicago, IL : Association of College and Research Libraries. http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=12008
• Sittler, R. L., & Cook, D. (Eds.). (2009). The library instruction cookbook. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. https://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/all/vf/Record/10813877

Instruction Activities- Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Subject Heading: Information literacy- Problems, exercises, etc.
• Subject Heading: Information Literacy- Study and Teaching
• Subject Heading: Information Literacy- Study and Teaching- Higher Education
• Subject Heading: Library Orientation for College Students
• Subject Heading: Academic libraries- Relations with faculty and curriculum