Information Literacy: IL at HFU

Currently our librarian instruction and information literacy programs include:

• Working with all students in both ENGL 101 and ENGL 115 classes (and other courses upon faculty request) introducing information literacy and research skills 

  • In these sessions, students will develop skills to discover and evaluate information, avoid plagiarism, and use proper citation

• Conducting class sessions, by faculty request, in which students and librarians actively collaborate to discover sources for their assignments

  • This includes upper level, major-specific classes to provide subject-specific, in-depth instruction and research support

  • Librarian sessions are flexible! Instruction can take place in the classroom or online. Librarians can be “on-call” for in-class research time or “pop-in” for quick assignment-specific guidance or a refresher.

• Creating custom course or project guides that can be linked in Canvas

• Meeting one-on-one with undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students to review APA compliance and reference list construction in addition to research assistance

• Co-leading APA workshops with Tiger Tutoring

Feel free to incorporate our assignments into your coursework! No permission needed, but we'd love to know if you found something useful.

We partner with faculty to develop an information-literate student. We recognize that attaining information literacy competency is a long-term process that evolves throughout a student’s academic career. 

Our initiatives are always evolving; currently, our programs include:

* Instructing all students registered in ENGL 101, 102, and 115 courses

* Instructing all Counseling Psychology graduate students in Professional Orientation

* Orienting and instructing all doctoral-level students 

* Providing tutorials and online resources to support students in our hybrid and online courses, as well as independent researchers

* By faculty request, meeting with students in upper-level classes to provide subject-specific, in-depth instruction and research support

* By faculty request, providing “embedded librarians” (i.e. ongoing research support) for students via Canvas 

Our librarians define an information literate student as one with the ability to:

• Discern and identify information and resources that will be most useful to complete an assignment or solve a problem
• Use technical competency to effectively and efficiently locate resources and materials using the library website, research databases, Internet search engines, and services such as interlibrary loan
• Critically evaluate diverse resources and materials in terms of authorship, authority, point of view, and audience, and discern which sources are useful and relevant for a given situation, assignment, or problem
• Synthesize information into meaningful results through the successful completion of writing projects, presentations, and other assignments
• Understand the ethical implications of scholarship by engaging in discussions about intellectual property rights, plagiarism, and citation formats
• Understand that information literacy is not only integral to academic success but also for the successful completion of work assignments and the attainment of personal goals throughout one's lifetime

Our librarians are happy to provide customized, in-class or online instruction for your students. Please fill out the Schedule an Instruction Session, allowing us enough time to prepare for your class. 

Garofolo, V. (2017, November 2). Information literacy in the real world [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/hbe6xBibOL4