Free Panel Discussion: Teaching Information Literacy: Considering Current and Future Approaches and Models

[Hammons, Jane]

Teaching Information Literacy: Considering Current and Future Approaches and Models

 

July 9, 2024 

1:00 pm (Eastern) 

To register: https://osu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rtdI73pqShu1EAzwYTHY7w  

 

Librarians have explored multiple approaches for teaching information literacy, including one-shots, embedded librarian programs, credit-bearing courses, and teach the teachers efforts. What is working with our current approaches? What needs to change? Should librarians be the ones teaching information literacy? Are credit-bearing courses the future of IL instruction? Or a faculty development approach? This discussion will explore the role that librarians play in teaching information literacy and consider the ways that this role may evolve as we move forward. 

All are welcome to attend this free panel discussion.

 

Panelists: 

• Heidi Julien is a Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). She teaches information literacy instruction to pre-service master’s students, among other courses. Her research areas are information behavior/practices and digital/information literacy. She has been publishing on a range of information literacy topics for 30 years, including longitudinal analyses of librarians’ teaching practices. 
• Jane Hammons is an Associate Professor and Teaching & Learning Engagement Librarian at The Ohio State University Libraries. She taught numerous one-shots and credit-bearing courses in her career and has led faculty development programming focused on information literacy. She has published on the “teach the teachers” approach to information literacy in College & Research Libraries, the Journal of Information Literacy, and the Journal of Academic Librarianship.   
• Matthew Weirick Johnson is the Director of Research & Instruction at the University of South Florida Libraries on the Tampa campus. They’re the editor of Training Library Instructors (forthcoming from ACRL in late 2024), which was inspired by developing a Library Instruction Training program for library student workers at UCLA Library. They have organized information literacy professional development opportunities for faculty and TAs, including summer information literacy institutes and a TA training seminar.  
• Bill Badke is Associate Librarian at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada. He has been teaching information literacy credit courses since 1985. He is the author of Research Strategies: Finding your Way through the Information Fog, 7^th ed. (iUniverse, 2021) and Teaching Research Processes: The Faculty Role in the Development of Skilled Student Researchers, 2^nd ed. (Enroute, 2021). Since 2007, he has written the InfoLitLand column for Online Searcher (Computers in Libraries). More recently, he led a series of faculty workshops on turning research assignments into training tools. 

 

This presentation is being hosted by The Ohio State University Libraries and is being offered as a follow-up to Celebrating 50 Years of Information Literacy: A Panel Discussion, held in April 2024.  

 

 

Jane Hammons, MSLIS, MS, MA
Associate Professor
Teaching and Learning Engagement Librarian
University Libraries 
221C Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Ave Mall, Columbus, OH 43210
614-688-2911 Office
hammo...@osu.edu / library.osu.edu 

My hours are usually 7:30-4:00 M-F.