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Creating and Maintaining an Information Literacy Instruction Program in the Twenty-First Century: An ever-changing landscape

Nancy Noe, Auburn University, USA

Chandos Information Professional Series

 - provides a practical, scalable information literacy instruction program framework based upon the 2011 draft ACRL Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices
 - reflects current scholarship and practice
 - contains sample worksheets, templates, and assessment instruments

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) set forth Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline. Creating and Maintaining an Information Literacy Instruction Program in the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a real-world, practical guide for creating an instruction program step-by-step, as well as a framework for reviewing, assessing, and updating existing programs. Each chapter focuses on one of the main aspects of the ACRL guidelines. Current research, anecdotal evidence and tools provide the reader with the support and instruments needed to either begin, or reinvigorate, an instruction program. The book begins by outlining the history of library instruction programmes. It then covers how to survey your current program, and how to develop and implementing a program plan. The next chapters concentrate on administrative and institutional support; curriculum integration and campus collaboration; present and future students; pedagogy for the information professional; program marketing and outreach; assessment and; future trends. Creating and Maintaining an Information Literacy Instruction Program in the 21st Century concludes by asking its readers to re-survey their information literacy instruction program landscape once again.

Readership: Instruction program coordinators, librarians and others who teach information literacy library instruction classes and courses, students of library and information science and library administrators.

Approx. £47.50 / US$80.00 / €55.00

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About the author

Nancy W. Noe serves as the Instruction Coordinator and Reference & Instruction Librarian at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. During her twenty year professional career she has served as a public, corporate and academic librarian and administrator. Nancy’s publications and presentations focus on information literacy instruction, assessment and successful campus collaborative efforts, including university level assessment, information literacy competency core curriculum integration, first year experience classes and curriculum mapping.

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Contents

Where are you now? Really?
 - A reality check
 - Unified language, unified mission, unified program

Why are we here and where do we want to go? Program mission, goals and objectives
 - Introduction
 - Developing a mission statement
 - Goals and objectives
 - Conclusion

Planning. Yes, more planning
 - Program assessment
 - Prioritizing assessment results
 - Utilizing focus groups
 - Conclusion

Packing for the journey: administrative and institutional support
 - Administrative support
 - Support in word and deed
 - Collaborative and campus-wide support
 - Conclusion

Articulation and collaboration
 - An essential pairing
 - Articulation
 - Articulation defined
 - Curriculum mapping
 - Collaboration
 - Conclusion

Today’s (and tomorrow’s) student
 - Knowing our students
 - Conclusion

Pedagogy, or “I’m a librarian, not a teacher!”
 - What is pedagogy?
 - Librarians and pedagogy
 - Teaching styles
 - Learning styles
 - Active learning
 - The classroom environment
 - Bringing it all together
 - Conclusion

Staffing
 - Librarians as teachers
 - Staffing
 - Teacher proficiencies and hiring
 - Teacher training and development
 - Teacher evaluation
 - Conclusion

Outreach and marketing
 - Outreach and marketing
 - A multitude of voices

Program and student assessment
 - Assessment
 - Program evaluation
 - Formative and summative assessments
 - Student assessments
 - Assessing outcomes and critical thinking

The road ahead
 - Future trends
 - Massive open online courses (MOOCs)
 - Distance education
 - Proceed with caution

Appendix 1: Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices

Appendix 2: Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

Appendix 3: Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction: A Model Statement for Academic Librarians

Appendix 4: Association of College and Research Libraries Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators