Future Trends in Information Literacy Instruction: Lessons

Learned from 13 Libraries: Session 5

The context: Clemson University- 22,000 students

New strategic plan for library and campus as a whole- Clemson
Forward- Libraries Forward
Carnegie Classified as R1
ACRL Framework
o Research as Inquiry- Use writing and reading for inquiry,
learning, thinking and communicating
o Scholarship as Convention- integrate their won ideas with
those of others
o Authority as Constructed and Contextual- understand the
relationships among language, knowledge and power
Threshold concepts- core concepts in particular discipline that then
transform the way a student learns
Transfer- will what were teaching transfer across concepts and
classes and even apply to student work for the rest of their lives
Interdisciplinary- importance of being a interdisciplinary space,
where we can move forward by crossing discipline lines
Why interview instructional librarians?
o List of classes taught, number of students reached- Clemson
was the lowest- why?
o How can we contribute to student success?
o How can the program be improved generally?
Interviewing 13 libraries
o Phone interviews with 9 questions
o Chose the 8 with the highest numbers
UCF
Louisville
UF
South Carolina, etc.
o Then the 5 Model Institutions
o Started with statistics question and then Programmatic
questions- what are changes they have made
o The Results
1. Bibliographic Instruction and One-shot sessions >
Information Literacy and Assignment Integration >
Interdisciplinary Research Process and Curricular
Integration
a. This lead librarians to be equal faculty
members
2. Leverage Partnerships and Pick Your battlesa. First year experience focus: 9 out of 13
interviewees

b. General Education involvement: 3 out of 4

model institutions
3. Higher Dedicated and Specialized Faculty
4. Find (and train) Your Champions
a. Faculty training
b. Internal professional development
c. Collegial networks
d. Librarians training faculty members
e. Librarians re-writing Gen Ed curriculum
Effects at Clemson
o Target SLOs and Assessment
o Close Communication and eventual collaboration with
instructors
o General Education committee involvement
o Instruction team restructure
New Positions>
Grad vs. Undergrad, General vs. Disciplinary
o Teacher Forums and Peer Observations
Collaborative E-Portfolio Development: A Librarian and a
Faculty Member Join Forces to Strengthen Students
Information and Information Technology Literacies

Advanced Public Speaking course at Hampton Sydney College- all

boys college
Dual Learning components- E-portfolios
Course componentso Public Speaking
o Field work experience- interviewing, in an out of classroom
o Digital e-portfolio
Expectations of collaboration
o Willing to make it up as they went along
o Wanted to morph information technology with information
literacy
o Display content in a different format
o How to encapsulate a semesters worth of work into one
format
Easy to use
Privacy- private but accessible by teacher, student,
family, future employers
Design- website with all sorts of features
Used WIX.com- cloud based website service
Did not publish to protect students- but
instructors has user names and passwords

Made sure that the work the students did could

be transferred to another site
Utilized MacBooks, Quicktime, YETI microphone