2019 NLA Conference

In response to the shifting trends of library instruction for first-year English Composition courses at the University of Nevada, Reno, a team from Research & Instructional Services collaborated with the English Department’s Core Writing Program to identify intended learning goals and differentiated outcomes for each course, develop a bank of shared information literacy activities to address those outcomes, and avoid redundancy in information literacy instruction. Working in teams and using recent ENG 101 and ENG 102 syllabi as a starting point, the presenters identified course learning outcomes with information literacy components. From the course outcomes, the presenter's wrote information literacy learning outcomes that were tied to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education and identified or developed activities for each information literacy learning outcome. The presenters will share strategies for mapping student learning outcomes, creating a shared activity bank, designing interactive learning exercises, and marketing newly scaffolded instruction to faculty.