Information Literacy Across the Curriculum: Using the Information Literacy Standards as a Blueprint for Strategic Curriculum Planning

An ACRL/TLT Group Online Seminar
Dates: TBD

Seminar Leaders: 
Deborah Robinson and Barbara Breeden, librarians, and Eloise Malone, professor, political science, United States Naval Academy; and Jill Gremmels and Randall Schroeder, librarians, and others (TBA), Wartburg College.

Workshop Description:
After successfully implementing a localized information literacy program, many librarians and faculty face the more daunting task of integrating IL skills across an entire curriculum. Undertaking this task is time consuming and demands the patience and support of a number of campus constituents. But when complete, it offers more vision and greater curricular integration than most realize. The process is actually easier than it appears because the Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education provide a highly flexible blueprint for strategic planning.

This workshop offers a guided introduction and first hand accounts about how to integrate IL competencies systematically throughout a general education or major curriculum. Programs highlighted will range from example of a systemwide approach coordinated across a state university system to a well articulated college-wide program that encompasses both majors and general education, to programs targeting a single discipline that act as "portable" models with hooks to other disciplines.

Each week synchronous Webcasts featuring a different set of practitioners will present and discuss the methods needed to grow a holistic information literacy program. The "how-to" focus offers participants, regardless of the stage of their IL program the tools, resources and action plans needed to expand the IL concept, tie it to curriculum and demonstrate its educational significance.

For more information literacy resources, visit ACRL's Information Literacy Web site.

Registration
ACRL member or affiliated with TLT subscriber institution: $150
ALA member: $185
Nonmember: $225

A $15 discount per registrant will be applied to participants registering from the same institution (first registrant pays full fee).

For an additional $45, you can purchase a planning review. For the planning review, a participant submits a written plan based on workshop content within one week of completion of the workshop and receives detailed suggestions from leaders within two weeks of submission.

Register online for this workshop.