Library Teaching and Learning Toolkit

Presentations and Handouts

Linked below are resources and presentations created or selected by SRSU Librarians to aid in teaching and learning about information literacy. Resources are divided by the six frames from the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy and mapped to the Library's five learning outcomes. Read more about Information Literacy and the Library's Instruction Program on our website.

• See also: ACRL Framework Posters PDF

I. Orientation: Using the SRSU Library

• Library Learning Outcome 1. Students acknowledge familiarity with library resources and services
  • Activity/Assignment: Education Grad Student Orientation (last updated Winter 2019)
  • Activity/Assignment: Lobo Days orientation presentation (last updated Summer 2018)

II. Authority is Constructed and Contextual: Recognizing Disciplines and Structures

• Library Learning Outcome 3. Through practice, students successfully describe different categories and types of information
• Library Learning Outcome 4. Through practice, students construct effective search strategies and utilize appropriate searching language to access information.
  • Activity/Assignment: Methods for Evaluating Sources - CRAAP Method and SIFT Method (last updated Fall 2020)

III. Information Creation as a Process: Learning and Mastering (and Joining) the Information Cycle

•  Library Learning Outcome 2. Through practice, students independently determine an information need and perform research effectively and efficiently to meet that need.
  • Activity/Assignment: Literature Reviews: Introduction (last updated Fall 2018)
  • Activity/Assignment: Help: Literary Criticism and Short Stories @ Sul Ross Library (last updated Winter 2019)
  • Activity/Assignment: How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography / Cómo Preparar una Bibliografía Anotada (added Fall 2020) [Creative Commons BY-NC-SA-4.0 Research and Learning Services, Olin Library, Cornell University Library, Ithica, NY, USA]

IV. Information Has Value: Ethical Use of Information

• Library Learning Outcome 5. Students ethically select and utilize relevant information sources based on defined situational contexts.
  • Activity/Assignment: The Quote Sandwich - help with in-text citations in APA (last updated Spring 2020)
  • Activity/Assignment: OER: Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial (added Fall 2020) [Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 Manchester Community College]

V. Research as Inquiry: Formulating Questions and Defining Scope

•  Library Learning Outcome 2. Through practice, students independently determine an information need and perform research effectively and efficiently to meet that need.
• Library Learning Outcome 4. Through practice, students construct effective search strategies and utilize appropriate searching language to access information.
  • Activity/Assignment: Choosing a Paper Topic: Examples of Different Ways to Organize Concepts (last updated Fall 2020)

VI. Scholarship as Conversation: Evaluating Sources

• Library Learning Outcome 4. Through practice, students construct effective search strategies and utilize appropriate searching language to access information.
• Library Learning Outcome 5. Students ethically select and utilize relevant information sources based on defined situational contexts.

VII. Searching as Strategic Exploration: Searching Process

• Library Learning Outcome 3. Through practice, students successfully describe different categories and types of information
  • Activity/Assignment: Research Basics: Research Flow Chat (updated Fall 2020)

Technology Help

• OER: Using Search Engines (added Fall 2020) [Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 digitallearn.org]
• OA: Navigating Digital Information, 10 part course with author John Green (added Fall 2020)

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