Integrating Information Literacy into the First Year

February 7, 2012

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Overview

Prepare your new students to better use library resources on your campus.

Help make your first-year students academically successful by integrating information literacy into first-year experience programs and courses. Many first-year programs incorporate information literacy peripherally; the highest impact, however, comes from making it an integral part of the first-year curriculum.

In this webcast, you will learn how to:

Utilize librarians in curriculum planning
Create research-based learning outcomes that address information literacy
Develop authentic and engaging research experiences and assignments for first year students
Foster collaboration between librarians and first-year seminar faculty

Join us online to learn how to effectively embed information literacy into the first-year student experience, as well as how two institutions are using these best practices successfully.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This program is ideal for first-year faculty who plan and develop first-year student experience programs and for librarians who work with undergraduate students.

Agenda

Learning Outcome:

After participating in this webcast, you will be able to more effectively prepare your first-year students to use library resources on your campus.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

1:00 - 2:45 p.m. EST

Foster collaboration between first-year programs and the library
- Involve librarians in first-year planning and programs
- Build information literacy into first-year learning outcomes
- Create authentic research opportunities
Provide information literacy in first-year program trainings for faculty
- Specify what librarians offer to first-year student programs
- Outline first-year students' developmental stages
- Generate discussion on incorporating authentic research into first-year assignments
- Encourage partnerships between faculty members and librarians
Instruct students through authentic and interactive activities
- Build student information literacy instruction around authentic research assignments
- Make instruction interactive (with sample learning activities)
- Additional tips
Case study
- Librarian perspective
- First-year coordinator perspective
- Putting it all together

Want more information about this event?

Contact Lisa Wexler, Assistant Conference Director if you'd like additional information about the program agenda.

Instructors

Ian Benton

Public Service Librarian, Undergraduate Library

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ian provides library reference services and information literacy sessions for undergraduates in College Library, the university's undergraduate library. He teaches the first-year student experience course called the Wisconsin Experience and has helped shape the course's information literacy component. Ian's current research interests include how best to create collaborations between librarians and first-year seminar faculty and staff.

Anne-Marie Deitering

Franklin McEdward Professor for Undergraduate Learning Initiatives

Oregon State University

Anne-Marie designs and delivers library services for undergraduates, including the writing program, academic learning services, BEST Bridge programs, and Honors College. As well, she coordinates library instruction in first-year student experience programs and undergraduate information literacy instruction. She has an M.A. from Syracuse University and an M.L.S. from Emporia State University. Her research interests include information literacy and the intersections of the pedagogies of student engagement and information literacy.

Adrianna Guram

Coordinator of Academic Initiatives, Center for the First-Year Experience

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Adrianna is responsible for developing curriculum for the Center for First-Year Experience, and for faculty/staff professional development. She serves as a liaison on behalf of the Center to help campus units develop initiatives for new students; most recently, she assisted the Institute for Biology Education (IBE) develop and implement a boot camp program to engage new students in exploration of the biological sciences. She continues to engage in teaching and training, and currently serves as the chair of the Commission for Academic Support in Higher Education at College Student Educators International (ACPA)

Registration

CD Recording of Live Webcast

We record the audio and visual portion of all live webcast events and make them available in two forms; as a CD or as an electronic download. CD recordings are mailed with a bound copy of the presentation materials and handouts approximately 10 business days following the live webcast date.

On-Demand Download of Live Webcast (180 day license)

We record the audio and visual portion of all live webcast events and make them available in two forms; as a CD or as an electronic download. On-demand downloads are available through an internet link sent via email approximately 10 business days following the live webcast date (links are active for 180 days).

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