Teaching Toolkit for Librarians

Communities of Practice

Our next Teaching Community of Practice will focus on the ACRL Info Lit Framework and how we can incorporate it in our teaching, training, and research support.

Details and dates coming soon --- but we will start in Fall 2018.

Assignment Banks

Teaching Bootcamp Outcomes & Agenda

Participants will be able to:

  • Name the six frames in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
  • Reflect on how the Information Literacy Framework fits within the disciplines and/or population you work with.
  • Identify at least one assignment that can be used for a fall class, workshop, or training session.

Thursday, June 28

  • 9:00-9:15 am - Welcome & intros
  • 9:15-10:00 am  - Searching as Strategic Exploration
  • 10:00-10:15 am - Break
  • 10:15-11:15 am - Authority is Constructed and Contextual & Information Has Value
  • 11:15-Noon - Information Creation as Process
  • Noon-1:30 pm - Lunch (Break and then Birds of a Feather)
  • 1:30-2:15 pm - Scholarship as Conversation
  • 2:15-2:30 pm - Break
  • 2:30- 3:15 pm -- Research as Inquiry
  • 3:15-4:00 pm - Wrap up

Sponsored by the VU Libraries Teaching & Learning Committee