Instruction Sessions at Hollins are course-integrated: subject liaison librarians work together with faculty in each division, to tailor instruction to a research assignment in each course. Many of our fall instruction sessions are with the first-year seminars (FYS). Our goals for the FYS program are as follows:
As a result of librarian-faculty collaboration in a First-Year seminar, Hollins students should be better equipped to apply the following academic information literacy skills:
1. Inquiry
Demonstrate understanding of the research process as explorative and iterative.
Begin to develop a process for selecting search terms and strategies that are appropriate to the student’s line of inquiry, then adjusting these as the research proceeds.
2. Evaluation
Select information based on appropriateness to the assignment, as well as the reliability, validity, accuracy, authority, timeliness, and point of view of the information source.
Begin to recognize various formats and types of information, and distinguish between their purposes (e.g. popular versus scholarly, biography versus criticism).
3. Recognition and attribution
Begin to recognize the nature of academic work as an ongoing collaboration and conversation among a community of scholars, and to explore the student’s own role in this context.
Understand the concomitant responsibility to provide attribution for all sources used in the student’s own work, as well as the process for doing this completely and effectively.
(WRL Goals for FYS 2015)
MISSION:
To deliver information literacy instruction to the Radford University community.
GOALS & OBJECTIVES
Goal 1: Partner with faculty and staff to improve student learning
Goal 2: Assess our program to identify strengths and weaknesses
Goal 3: Improve and expand access to information literacy instruction
Goal 4: Explore innovative teaching methods to enhance the classroom environment