Instructional Design & Materials
Literally formatted like cookbooks—complete with prep time, ingredients (materials), and step-by-step instructions. No fluff, just grab-and-go lesson plans you can adapt for your class tomorrow. From teaching primary sources to tackling misinformation, there's a recipe for almost everything.
Including The Open Science Cookbook (2025), The Data Literacy Cookbook (2022), The Scholarly Communications Cookbook (2021), The Teaching with Primary Sources Cookbook (2021), The Critical Thinking about Sources Cookbook (2020), The Library Outreach Cookbook (2020), The Sustainable Library's Cookbook (2019), The Library Assessment Cookbook (2017), The First-Year Experience Cookbook (2017), The Discovery Tool Cookbook (2016), and The Embedded Librarian's Cookbook (2014). Basically, if you teach it, there's probably a cookbook for it.
ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Sandbox
The community library for Framework-aligned teaching materials. Search by Frame, discipline, or format to find lesson plans, assignments, slides, and assessments that other librarians have actually used. It's crowdsourced, adaptable, and a great place to start when you need inspiration.
Communications in Information Literacy (CIL)
An open-access, peer-reviewed journal that's academic and practical. The Innovative Practices column is the real gem: detailed case studies of creative teaching with the why-it-works explanation included.
Featured Online Learning Objects (FOLO) Committee
Formerly PRIMO, now a curated showcase instead of a giant database. Each semester, they spotlight a few exceptional tutorials or modules and interview the creators about their process. It's like a masterclass in digital instruction design—perfect for benchmarking your own work or stealing ideas from the best.
Practical, peer-to-peer, and refreshingly jargon-free. This publication is all about what actually works in the classroom: lesson plans, active learning strategies, tech reviews. If you need something you can use next week, start here.
