Collaborating with Librarians to Develop Lower Division Political Science Students' Information Literacy Competencies

Librarians in the Midst: Improving Student Research Through Collaborative Instruction

“…In addition to an increasing focus on the level of collaboration between faculty and librarians, there are calls to move away from "one-size-fits-all" models of information literacy instruction and towards instruction specific to the course content in classes (Stevens and Campbell 2008). While evidence suggests that library instruction ought to be integrated in course work rather than presented as separate from courses in the discipline, political science pedagogy literature has not included a heavy focus on information literacy (Williams and Evans 2008).…”

“…This misperception hides the role that librarians can play in promoting information literacy in the classroom. Many of the problems with students' research papers, as reported by grading faculty, are problems that are addressed by information literacy instruction (Stevens and Campbell 2008). This study seeks to test the role of librarians embedded in the classroom to facilitate information literacy and produce quality research to the benefit of students and faculty alike.…”

A Pragmatic and Flexible Approach to Information Literacy: Findings from a Three-Year Study of Faculty-Librarian Collaboration

“…Such assessments suggest that many undergraduates are completing their degrees without having learned how to select and evaluate materials, including scholarly sources, when conducting research projects (Centellas, 2011). If faculty are providing opportunities for students to practice cultivating ILrelated skills, and if the achievement of these skills is an accepted pedagogical goal, what is preventing students from mastering them (Baglione, 2008;Cavdar & Doe, 2012;Stevens & Campbell, 2008;Williams & Evans, 2008)? As members of a democratic polity and "knowledge economy," moreover, young adults need to develop critical thinking and information assessment skills while in college so as to meet the expectations associated with citizenship and the workplace after college (Dolowitz, 2007;Fitzgerald & Baird, 2011;Thornton, 2010 …”

“…Indeed, teaching students how to critically engage with source materials and weigh evidence is a central tenet of the longstanding information literacy (IL) movement among librarians in higher education (Association of College & Research Libraries, 1989). Recognition of IL as a core competency can now be found in a number of departments and in a number of disciplines (Kuglitsch, 2015;Weiner, 2014), including history and art history (Cassidy & Hendrickson, 2013;Garland, 2014;Gendron & Sclippa, 2014;Porras-Hein & Miller, 2004;Hicks & Howkins, 2015), political science (Cavdar & Doe, 2012;Bob, 2001;Fitzgerald & Baird, 2001;Gilbert, Knutson, & Gilbert, 2012;Marfleet & Dille, 2005;Stevens & Campbell, 2008;Williams, Goodson, & Howard, 2006;Williams & Evans, 2008), psychology (Dold, 2014;Lampert, 2005), and sociology (Dodgen, Naper, Palmer, & Rapp, 2003;Caravello, Kain, Kuchi, Macicak, & Weiss, 2008;Proctor, Wartho, & Anderson, 2005). IL is also now a common goal of first-year programs at large public universities, community colleges, and private liberal arts institutions (Fain, 2011;Gawalt & Adams, 2011;Gross & Latham, 2011;Karshmer & Bryan, 2011;Kim & Schumaker, 2015;Manus, 2009;Moore, Black, Glackin, Ruppel, & Watson, 2015;Rinto & Cogbill-Seiders, 2015;Samson & Graneth, 2004;Wilkes, Godwin, & Gurney, 2015).…”

The Humanities in process, not crisis: Information literacy as a means of low-stakes course innovation

“…In other contexts college educators have written positively about annotated bibliographies for the degree to which they can serve as "an opportunity for students to review the literature on their selected topic and then to receive feedback about the direction of their research and the quality of the sources they are using." 8 In other words, the annotated bibliography serves as an efficient means for instructors to give students a better idea of how they're doing. This is certainly the case at Trinity.…”