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Information Literacy Framework

Academic staff and librarian collaboration

 

The Library is committed to partnering with academics in implementing the Information Literacy Framework (ILF) across the University. By working collaboratively with a Faculty librarian, information literacy skills are embedded across the curriculum, adding value to learning and enhancing student learning outcomes.

The Library strives to integrate information literacy university-wide through the following initiatives:

  1. Collaborating with academic staff to incorporate information literacy skills into new or redesigned programs and courses.
  2. Creating a skills progression mapping in partnership with academic staff to track the development of information literacy skills within programs.
  3. Providing support, assistance, and training to academic staff seeking to enhance their information literacy skills and knowledge.
  4. Delivering information literacy training to students in partnership with academic staff.
  5. Assisting teaching staff in fostering discipline-specific information literacy behaviors among students.
  6. Assisting in the development of high-quality assessment tasks that promote the growth of information literacy skills in students.
  7. Working with Student Success to enhance the university-wide understanding of information literacy.
  8. Promoting information literacy as a critical skill for employability, graduate, and postgraduate success.

Types of support

Library and academic staff can work together to comprehensively develop and scaffold students' information literacy skills and knowledge of discipline related information sources throughout their chosen program. 

Feekery, A. J. (2017). The Feekery Information literacy model. https://informationliteracyspaces.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/the-feekery-information-literacy-model/

 

The Library can collaborate with course coordinators to embed information research skills progressively throughout a program and expertly curate a tailored, point of need research skills program to complement course curricula.

This can be achieved via:

  • Linking existing digital learning objects (DLOs) to course content
  • Curating a selection of DLOs to complement a weekly lecture or tutorial
  • Creation of DLOs to fill gaps in knowledge and help overcome known student challenges 
  • Textbook scaffolding
  • Training sessions for staff and students
  • Attending tutorials to offer 'point of need' skills tuition
  • Individual student support

Here is an example of how Library staff can review a course outline and curate a list of specially selected resources to compliment weekly course topics.

Scaffolding textbooks

We know that it is important to students that textbook content will be useful, relevant and well used in their course. Students want to know that selected textbooks remain useful over time (for future courses or even professionally). Students will be more likely to purchase a textbook if they know they will encounter it again in future courses.

The Library can help you find books that can be used across multiple courses and help you to consolidate multiple titles on the same subject.

Here is an example of a Librarian partnership with a Program Coordinator to scaffold the chapters of a textbook across the whole degree with links to a list of Digital Learning Objects curated by a subject specialist Librarian. 

Click here to view: ARTS1000 concept map which scaffolds the contents of a new course text for 2023 across the degree.

The concept map, developed by Helena Kadmos aims to support a whole of school ​approach by:

  • outlining the conceptual thread underpinning ARTS1000
  • sharing the schedule of topics and concepts students work through
  • identifying discrete topics and skills that can be developed further in subsequent courses to further enhance the explicit teaching of academic learning skills
  • providing links to the university's Information Literacy Framework (ILF) for further elaboration and alignment

To aid with this the Library has matched resources with each chapter's topics to suggest DLOs to be scaffolded and embed in courses throughout a student's degree.

Digital learning objects (DLOs) are digital resources that can be reused to support learning. Targeted in nature, DLOs can be embedded in Blackboard sites to support students at their point of need. The Library has a curated range of resources available to support the development of information literacy including:

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