The “embedded” librarian in a freshman speech class: Information literacy instruction in action

As librarians, we often get to see the beginning of the information literacy cycle. We see and help students all the time with resource discovery, information collection, and early decision-making about the information they’ve gathered. Rarely, it seems, are we afforded the chance to see the middle steps of the process where they begin to use and synthesize this information. Nor do we often get the chance to see the papers, projects, and presentations that are the final result of the research. And more’s the pity, because we spend so much time talking about and trying to teach information literacy, it’s often disheartening that we only get to see the beginning stages of the work. We can learn a great deal about how to more effectively assist students in the information literacy process if we have some experience working with them from the beginning to the end of a project.

Source: C&RL News

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