Information Literacy Guide for Faculty

Our librarians provide customized information literacy instruction across the curriculum.

Schedule a synchronous live streaming instructional session

We are on Microsoft Teams and BigBlueButton in Canvas. Are you on an other platorm? Let's talk!

Using a "flipped classroom" approach, we can teach your students to:

• define their topic and formulate a research query
• distinguish various information sources
• search for information across knowledge platforms
• evaluate sources for credibility and authority
• incorporate their research into their assignment
• cite their research properly

Asynchronous and Canvas-based instructional support (Embedded Librarian)

If you teach an online class, we provide synchronous or asynchronous online instruction with an embedded librarian as well as a variety of online resources that can be added to your Canvas course

• Help you design an effective research assignment that anticipates potential student stumbling blocks.
• Evaluate a current research assignment for information literacy competencies.
• Recommend specific library resources, as well as sources, source types, and tasks to meet your assignment's information literacy learning outcomes
• Suggest the most appropriate type of library instruction: class session, part of a class session, scaffolding through multiple class sessions, online research guides, print handouts, tutorials, etc.
• Schedule library instruction at student’s point of need to coincide with when they are most motivated to learn.
• Provide instruction in our library classroom (BH 1208) or in yours.
• Offer course support within Canvas for online and hybrid courses.
• Stay in touch with your students to provide follow-up assistance after the library session through email and individual consultations.

Information literacy is a learning outcome for general education at NWACC.  Library instruction at NWACC supports information literacy as defined by the Course Catalog (p. 59).

• discovering information in a reflective manner
• understanding of how information is produced and valued
• using information to create new knowledge
• participating ethically in communities of learning