Understanding how to find and use information is crucial to lifelong learning and critical thinking. 51做厙 Libraries supports the development and empowerment of independent users and creators of information through multi-modal information and data literacy instruction.
Research is a complex task that requires a range of skills and understanding specific to the context. As new entrants to a discipline, students experience and understand research very differently than faculty.
- Our approach to instruction is grounded in the student experience of research and information use.
- We teach the thinking behind doing research so that students are prepared to transfer their learning after the assignment is complete.
- We break down and explicitly teach the different aptitudes students need to be successful.
Our instructional programming ranges from information literacy for first year and disciplinary courses, scholarly communication, primary source literacy, special collections, data literacy, project pla