Tips for building a tiered, integrated info lit program in your discipline ...
Identify information fluency skills your students need to develop to successfully complete course assignments, become well-rounded, successful practitioners/professionals?
Determine what isunique about the information fluency needsof students in your discipline
Incorporate a statement relating to the teaching of information fluency skills in the learning objectives for your discipline.
Determine whenshould each of the desirable information fluency skills best (i.e. most effectively) be taught and/or when are they necessary?
Work to target the best (i.e., most logical “fit”) courses for information fluency - try to match student learning outcomes with ACRL information literacy frames.
Library liaison devises a “blitz” campaign to communicate about the program and contact the potential players. This involves a lot of time and perseverance. Sometimes you have to be a real pest/nag! It also takes time and resilience.
Faculty/Librarian Collaboration is essential!
Develop meaningful in-class activities and course assignments targeting/employing specific information fluency skills/objectives/frames?
