Faculty Workshop on Information Literacy
Session9: Information Literacy in the Curriculum
Winter Term 1997

The task of instruction in information literacy may usefully be divided into two distinct parts. The basics include types of information sources and their evaluation, ways that information is organized and indexed, and search tools and strategies. These basics are largely common to all academic disciplines, and it is important that students become familiar with them early in their college careers.

Once students have chosen a major, they should become familiar with sources and search strategies that are particularly important for that discipline.

In this session we will discuss some questions about making information literacy a part of the curriculum. To facilitate discussion, we will divide into small"breakout" groups of faculty from related disciplines. We will all meet first at 10AM in the Moffett Auditorium,move to the adjacent East Lounge for the breakout session (and refreshments), and then Go to the Moffett Auditorium for reports from each group and some final discussion. Fitting this into an hour session doesn't leave time for really extended discussion, so please give the questions some thought ahead of time. Here are the discussion questions:

  1. How could courses in your field serve to ground students in basics of information literacy?

  2. Which basics, if any, seem particularly difficult to achieve through courses in your field?

  3. How could your majors best develop information skills appropriate to your discipline?

  4. In what ways, if any, does the claimed dichotomy between basic and disciplinary aspects seem an inappropriate guide to information literacy as a curricular goal?

  5. What are the most appropriate respective roles of faculty and librarians in teaching information literacy?

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