Information Literacy

The focus of our Information Literacy program is on helping students acquire the skills to search for, evaluate, and use information effectively and efficiently. The Library offers hands-on instruction sessions on library research which is tailored to courses, assignments, and students' research topics. Instruction sessions will use the full class time. 

We use active learning in our instruction to engage students and improve learning. Information Literacy sessions are available for both traditional face-to-face classes and online classes. Traditional classes meet in our Library classroom ACA 118 (Salado) and online classes receive instruction via Zoom.   

We ask that you give us sufficient time to prepare for your classes with a minimum of one week's notice for classes in the Fall and Spring semesters and 3 days notice in Summer.

• Information Literacy Instruction Requests
• LibGuide Faculty Tab Only Requests
• Citation Workshop Requests
• Instruction Calendar

If you wonder why we stress the importance of information literacy for our students, here are a few research articles that speak to that reason.

• Henry, Jo, et al. “A Double Shot of Information Literacy Instruction at a Community College.” Community & Junior College Libraries, vol. 21, no. 1–2, Jan. 2015, pp. 27–36. EBSCOhost.

• Limberg, Louise, and Olof Sundin. “Teaching Information Seeking: Relating Information Literacy Education to Theories of Information Behaviour.” Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, Oct. 2006. EBSCOhost.

• Cox, Angie, et al. “Investigating Faculty Perceptions of Information Literacy and Instructional Collaboration.” Communications in Information Literacy, vol. 17, no. 2, Sept. 2023, pp. 407–23. EBSCOhost.