Using Info Diaries to Synthesize Information Literacy Competencies:

Access, Evaluation & Use

Lettycia TerronesReference & Instruction LibrarianCal State University Los Angeles

Students as ParticipantsLearner-Centered-Teaching asks the instructor to “facilitate and guide learners … to do the work of learning, to become actively involved in the material to be learned, and to then create their own understanding of that material.”

(Kaplowitz, 2012, p. 8)

*Equipping students to “Enter into the Conversation!”

ACRL Info Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

Determine the information need

Access information effectively and efficiently

Evaluate information and its sources critically

Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose

Understand issues surrounding the use of information, and access/use information ethically

Association of College and Research Libraries. (2002). Information literacy competency standards for higher education. Chicago, IL: ALA. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/standards/standards.pdf

InfoLit How to Equip Students

Research questionKeywords/Subject headings

Accessing sources Evaluate & Use information

Understand ethics of info access and use

Critical Thinking

… is PRESENT in all steps of the research process!

Critical Thinking & Information Literacy are not in competition, but rather

complement each other.

Entering the Conversation

Rodburg, M. (1999). Moving from Assignment to Topic. Retrieved from http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/documents/Topic.html

Writing is not playing someone else's game. Successful writing involves the creation and framing of your own questions about the sources you've chosen. You want to attend to the assignment at the same time that you locate and articulate your own, particular interest in it.

(Rodburg, 1999)

InfoLit How to Equip Students

Research questionKeywords/Subject headings

Accessing sources Evaluate & Use information

Understand ethics of info access and use

= Participation (CREATE!)

References

Association of College and Research Libraries. (2002). Information literacy competency standards for

higher education. Chicago, IL: ALA. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/

files/content/standards/standards.pdf

Kaplowitz, J. R. (2012). Transforming information literacy instruction using learner-centered teaching.

London, England: Facet Publishing.

Rodburg, M. (1999). Moving from assignment to topic. Retrieved from http://www.fas.harvard.edu/

~wricntr/documents/Topic.html

Terrones, L. (2013). LIBR 250 course webpage. Retrieved from http://calstatela.libguides.com/

terrones_libr250