Collaborations between Faculty and Special Collections Librarians in Inquiry-Driven Classes

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Main Authors: Mazella, David, Grob, Julie
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Language:en
Published: 2011
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Grob, Julie
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contents Collaborations between Faculty and Special Collections Librarians in Inquiry-Driven Classes Mazella, David Grob, Julie Majors (Students) Cooperation Critical Thinking Information Literacy Thinking Skills Academic Libraries Librarian Teacher Cooperation Archives Librarians Information Seeking College Curriculum Databases Electronic Libraries Printed Materials Library Materials Special Libraries Library Role Inquiry Though information literacy (IL) instruction is often assumed by faculty to be electronic, introductory, and teachable in a single visit, our collaboration on an inquiry-driven, research-intensive capstone course for English majors focused instead on bringing their information gathering and critical thinking skills up to a disciplinary level. Students, therefore, completed a series of increasingly complex special collections assignments to practice working among archival items, electronic databases, and conventional print works. Collaboration and some degree of role flexibility became essential to our goal of imparting a more advanced, comprehensive, and disciplinary version of IL to students. (Contains 27 notes.)
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spellingShingle Collaborations between Faculty and Special Collections Librarians in Inquiry-Driven Classes
Mazella, David
Grob, Julie
Majors (Students)
Cooperation
Critical Thinking
Information Literacy
Thinking Skills
Academic Libraries
Librarian Teacher Cooperation
Archives
Librarians
Information Seeking
College Curriculum
Databases
Electronic Libraries
Printed Materials
Library Materials
Special Libraries
Library Role
Inquiry
Collaborations between Faculty and Special Collections Librarians in Inquiry-Driven Classes Mazella, David Grob, Julie Majors (Students) Cooperation Critical Thinking Information Literacy Thinking Skills Academic Libraries Librarian Teacher Cooperation Archives Librarians Information Seeking College Curriculum Databases Electronic Libraries Printed Materials Library Materials Special Libraries Library Role Inquiry Though information literacy (IL) instruction is often assumed by faculty to be electronic, introductory, and teachable in a single visit, our collaboration on an inquiry-driven, research-intensive capstone course for English majors focused instead on bringing their information gathering and critical thinking skills up to a disciplinary level. Students, therefore, completed a series of increasingly complex special collections assignments to practice working among archival items, electronic databases, and conventional print works. Collaboration and some degree of role flexibility became essential to our goal of imparting a more advanced, comprehensive, and disciplinary version of IL to students. (Contains 27 notes.)
title Collaborations between Faculty and Special Collections Librarians in Inquiry-Driven Classes
topic Majors (Students)
Cooperation
Critical Thinking
Information Literacy
Thinking Skills
Academic Libraries
Librarian Teacher Cooperation
Archives
Librarians
Information Seeking
College Curriculum
Databases
Electronic Libraries
Printed Materials
Library Materials
Special Libraries
Library Role
Inquiry
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ913995