Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. The lessons in this book, created by teaching librarians across the country, are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (2015). This volume offers concrete and specific ways of teaching the threshold concepts that are central to the ACRL Framework and is suitable for all types of academic libraries, high school libraries, as well as a pedagogical tool for library and information schools.
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Chapter 1 Scholarship As Conversation |
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The Conversational Nature of Sources of Information |
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Using Information as a Springboard to Research |
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Mapping Scholarly Conversation |
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Crafting a Credible Message |
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Starting Points: The Role of Blogs in Scholarly Conversation |
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Chapter 2 Research As Inquiry |
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Flawed Questions: Tools for Inquiry |
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Crime Scene Investigation as an Analogy for Scholarly Inquiry |
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Developing a Research Question: Topic Selection |
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The Connection between Personal and Academic Research |
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Chapter 3 Authority Is Constructed And Contextual |
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Evaluating Information Sources |
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Determining the Relevance and Reliability of Information Sources |
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Establishing and Applying Evaluation Criteria |
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Non-Scholarly Formats as Research Tools |
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Chapter 4 Information Creation As A Process |
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Using Sources to Support a Claim |
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Tracing Information over Time |
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Chapter 5 Searching As Strategic Exploration |
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From Nothing to Something: Transforming the "Failed" Search |
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Who Cares? Understanding the Human Production of Information |
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Password: Keyword Edition |
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Approaching Problems Like a Professional |
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Databases vs. Search Engines Game |
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Framing a Topic for Library Research |
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Chapter 6 Information Has Value |
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Gray Areas in Plagiarism Cases |
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The Who, What, and Why of the Creative Commons |
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Plagiarism v. Copyright Infringement |
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Louder than Words: Using Infographics to Teach the Value of Information and Authority |
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Ethical Use of Information in Presentations |
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Lessons With Overlapping Information Literacy Threshold Concepts |
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ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education |
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| Recommended Reading |
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| About The Editors |
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| Contributors |
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Patricia Bravender is a professional programs librarian and liaison to Legal Studies, Criminal Justice, and Hospitality and Tourism Management at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, USA. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the School of Criminal Justice at GVSU where she supervises the internship programs in legal studies. She holds an MLIS from Wayne State University. In addition to threshold concepts, her research interests are information privacy and censorship.
Hazel McClure is the liaison librarian to English, Writing, and Environmental Studies at Grand Valley State University, USA. She holds an MFA from Saint Marys College of California and an MLS from State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research interests are collaboration with disciplinary faculty, threshold concepts, and poetry publishing models.
Gayle Schaub is the liaison librarian to the Art and Design, Modern Languages, and Psychology departments at Grand Valley State University Libraries, USA. She holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the American University in Cairo. Gayles other research interests include library services to international students and information literacy in K-12 education.
