1. Shaking Up the Sediment:
Re-energizing Pedagogical Practice while
Avoiding Bottle Shock
The Innovative Library Classroom
Radford, Virginia
May 12, 2015
6. ACRL Framework for Information
Literacy for Higher Education
The document that launched a thousand discussions, debates, and revisions until it
was finally filed alongside the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards
as one of a “constellation” of documents guiding Information Literacy.
“Students have a greater role and responsibility in creating new knowledge, in
understanding the contours and the changing dynamics of the world of information, and in
using information, data, and scholarship ethically.”
7. Beilin, Ian (2015). Beyond the Threshold: Conformity, Resistance, and the ACRL
Information Literacy Framework for Higher Education. In the Library with the
Lead Pipe.
Upholds
Limited
Perspective
Accepts
Existing Power
Structures
Threshold
Concepts
Empowers
Students
Inspires
Resistance
among
Librarians
Social
Justice
8. “When we limit its potentials to outcomes and
standards, we run the risk of minimizing the
complex situatedness of information literacy and
diminishing – if not negating – its inherent
political nature.”
Jacobs, H. M. (2008). Information Literacy and Reflective Pedagogical Praxis. Journal Of
Academic Librarianship, 34(3), 256-262.
10. Would peer review be more valid if it
allowed the power to shift from the
privileged few to the masses, including
us?
Why are scholarly journals required for
this assignment, if they are fraught with
errors and lies, just like other types of
sources?
Without access to these fancy databases,
how would you gather data and info to
analyze and synthesize in response to
your research question?
Whose voices are we missing if we only
pay attention to sources that come to us
through established scholarly
communication channels?
Authority is Constructed &
Contextual
or things I encourage students to
consider that might conflict with the way
their assignments are worded, what
instructors have told them, or what they
already believe to be true.
15. Realities: Local Context
• Data & Evidence
• National Trends
• Local Studies
• Post-Renovation
• More Partners in the Library
• Fewer Library Classrooms
• Fewer First-Year Courses & Requests for One-Shot Sessions
• Prioritizing Student Workers as Front-Line Staff
• Increase in Incentives for Faculty/Librarian Collaborations
16. Cowan, S. M. (2013). Information Literacy: The Battle We Won That We Lost?. Portal:
Libraries And The Academy, (1), 23.
“And yet, despite the social-cultural-technological
currents that took information literacy and made
it a concept and practice that applies to twenty-
first century life writ large, information literacy is
still written about, presented, and practiced
within libraries and higher education institutions
as if it still naturally falls within the purview of
libraries and as if librarians are still, somehow,
best positioned to create and implement it.”
17. Transitions
Instruction
• Direct student contact
• Everyday interactions with
learners
• Limited involvement
• In the classroom
• Library service provider
Consulting
• Instructional design
• Librarians’ expertise
• Influence assignment
design
• Engagement in course
design
• Partner with Faculty
19. Here’s to trying not to box ourselves into one perspective,
approach, or lens when it comes to teaching.
Cheers!
flickr: Maria Morri – espiritu de argentina
20. Instruction As We Knew It
• Situated within a structured context/timeline
• Credit hours
• Semesters
• Reward systems beyond our control
• Students’ grades
• Course evaluations
• At the request of others
• With little prior knowledge of students, situation
• Pitfall of “library day”
21. “If you don’t like what people are saying, change the conversation.” –Don Draper
23. Information Literacy @ IU
Incentives for Faculty &
Librarians
Integration &
Assessment
Professional
Development
Grant
Opportunities
Research
Consultations
Instructional
Consultations
Assignment
Design
Consultations
Information
Literacy in
the
Disciplines
Library Services &
Support
28. Instructional Consultation
• Drop-in office hours in the library
• Scheduled in response to requests for library instruction
• Intended to support faculty and librarians in building
information literacy into course assignments and
assessments
• Focus on Backward Design principles
• Resources: internal and public
• Preparation, Consultation, Follow-up
34. My Greatest Fear: Sediment
We may not
notice sediment
until it’s too late.
flickr: Toshiyuki IMAI – Sediment
35. Professional Renewal
• Find new meaning
• Challenge Yourself
• Challenge Your Thinking
• Begin again
• Seek Out New Professional Opportunities
• Take on new expertise/role
• Rekindle your own Learning
• Find another area of focus
• Research
• Creative Activity
36. Self-Care
Burnout
• Loss of control
• Overwhelming sense of
stress
• Work begins to feel
meaningless
• Inability to say “no”
• Feeling all of the feelings
Renewal
Larrivee, B. (2012). Cultivating teacher renewal: guarding against stress and burnout.
• Acknowledge your
contribution
• Take time for yourself and
your priorities
• Engage in daily rituals
• Begin the day with a wish for
something positive
• Recap the day by
remembering a kindness