The 21st Century Library: Opening Doors Into Scholarly Research: Threshold Concepts and Penfield Library's Question-Discover-Use Framework for the Learning and Teaching of Information Literacy in the 21st Century (Presented at SUNY Oswego Spring Braakout, May 20, 2014)
Over the past few years ACRL (Association for College and Research Libraries) has been working on a re-design of their Information Literacy Competency Standards (2000) which have been the basis for our information literacy programs. Concurrently, the Oswego librarians have restated the standards into learning goals and guiding concepts for continuing assessment and development of our information literacy programs. Nationally the result is a framework of threshold concepts including Research as Conversation, Inquiry, Format as Process, Authority is Constructed and Contextual, and Searching is strategic. http://acrl.ala.org/ilstandards/ The local result is a framework of concepts including Integrity and Participation in a Community of Practice, Question, Discover Sources, and Use Sources. https://sites.google.com/a/oswego.edu/nichols/question-discover-use/q-d-u-in-brief This presentation will explore how these frameworks align with each other and can be used to improve the learning and teaching of information literacy for living in the 21st Century.
Lecture capture video from a later presentation (May 2015) using the same materials
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“Towards an Expanded Draft |.” Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Accessed May 20, 2014. http://acrl.ala.org/ilstandards/?page_id=133.