Penn Libraries' Teaching, Research, and Learning Services is launching a pilot to work with faculty interested in systematically integrating 4 research information literacies into their courses. The goal is better support young scholars in developing lifelong research skills.

1. Integrating Research Literacies
into Penn courses to support young scholars
Teaching, Research, and Learning Services
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2. Penn faculty are among the top researchers in the world,
making amazing discoveries across disciplines
http://www.upenn.edu/researchdir

3. Under faculty guidance, Penn students are engaged in
research-intensive, cross-disciplinary courses

4. Without a firm grounding in research information literacies,
success can be elusive for young scholars

5. Penn librarians are here to help. This is what we do!

6. We can help you…
1. Develop course assignments
2. Plan & facilitate in-class activities
3. Design your Canvas course
4. Pilot Library Lounge (new!)
with these 4 literacies in mind

7. Distinguish
source types
Determine
authority &
credibility
By the end of a research-intensive course, students should be able to:
Implement
search
strategies
Build
arguments
Explain how primary,
secondary & background
resources support a
research claim
Evaluate the reliability of
online sources by examining
claims & author experience
Improve a search for
secondary criticism using
metadata from a results list
Identify ways to engage with
a secondary source to form
an argument

8. Using fresh approaches, librarians can help faculty design
engaging course activities & assignments that help students
acquire essential research literacies.

9. Examples
(1) Distinguish source types, (2) Determine authority & credibility, (3) Implement search strategies & (4) Build arguments
3D models &
physical prototypes
Maps
Comics &
infographics
Data set analysis Service learning
Online or
in-class debates
beyond the research paper

10. This is your library

11. For more info, contact:
SamKirk@upenn.edu
or
KimEke@upenn.edu
Ask about our
Library Lounge Pilot
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Help young scholars
gain research skills!