LINKS to more information about our program

About the instruction program (mission statement) (?What do we call this? Information literacy program?)

Our instruction mission is to enhance learning and integrate information competency into the curriculum. Library staff partner with faculty and other instructors to help all members of the academic community to find their way into collections, and to master research techniques and methods. In a rapidly changing information and education environment, we help them learn the skills needed to find, read, evaluate, and use complex resources from the Cornell University Library and beyond, in a confident, efficient, and ethical fashion.

Faculty can select from a variety of instruction approaches including in-person presentations, group consultations, and online guides and tutorials. These approaches can be easily integrated into existing coursework. The Library also partners with on-campus resources, such as The Center for Teaching Excellence, to help faculty design new assignments that integrate and assess components of information literacy. Contact us for more information.

(VIDEO: Faculty profile)

Student Learning Outcomes

  • How do these relate to the University's assessment of student learning? And the Colleges?
  • Students will develop an understanding of how scholarly information is formally and informally produced, organized and disseminated in order to select appropriate research tools and resources relevant to their field of inquiry.
  • Students will find and use relevant information available from the Library collections, the internet, and other sources in order to confidently access needed information effectively and efficiently.
  • Students will be able to evaluate information sources critically according to selected criteria (such as authority, currency, bias, etc) in order to select appropriate sources to inform their research.
  • Students will analyze and synthesize the information they find in order to accomplish a specific purpose (a paper, presentation, movie, etc.).
  • Students will develop an understanding of the ethical and legal issues surrounding the use of information in order to use, cite, and acknowledge information sources appropriately

Videos of faculty talking about instruction

Already shot, needs final editing (and viewing from the group)

Examples of our work

Should this area be a rotating gallery? Three examples that we change every semester? Do we even need this section if we have video testimonials from faculty?

  • Good course-related library guides
  • Description of assignments
  • Mann has a video talking about video modules

Stuff faculty can use in their classes now

  • Research minutes
  • Evaluation checklists
  • Copyright information
  • Plagiarism
  • Citation 
  • Someday, a list of video tutorials by subject.

Our partners in teaching

Center for Teaching Excellence

Digital Literacy Website

Academic Technologies

Links to assessment

Meet your librarian

Campus Guides widget

Link to list of librarians/liaison page

General:

 Too many ways to get to what you what to get to, instead of hunting for the content