Assistant Director, Information Literacy & Instruction
Welcome
Welcome to your information literacy toolkit.
This guide is intended for instructors at TXST: faculty, lecturers, visiting professors, teaching assistants, and anyone else who works in an instructional capacity.
Our team of librarians are here to assist you and your students when it comes to research and navigating resources.
For Your Courses
Librarians are ready to work with you and your students.
We can help with
- planning research assignments
- assisting with digital learning tools related to the library
- building resource guides
- showing students how to navigate resources
- teaching information literacy skills
- teaching specialized resources to support your assignment
- offering general Research Tutorials that are open and online. These cover the research basics.
- planning library workshops (for special topics or groups)
- using Open Education Resources (OER)
- using Open Pedagogy
- consulting via individual appointments (for faculty, staff, or students)
- coaching students with our Peer Research Coaching program
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
Our instruction is guided by the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Instruction.
The full website with a more in depth explanation is linked below (from the American Library Association).
The basics of this framework include the following core values:
- Authority is Constructed and Contextual
- Information Creation as a Process
- Information Has Value
- Research as Inquiry
- Scholarship as Conversation
- Searching as Strategic Exploration
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ACRL Framework"The Framework offered here is called a framework intentionally because it is based on a cluster of interconnected core concepts, with flexible options for implementation, rather than on a set of standards or learning outcomes." - ACRL Board (2016)