Standards for higher education with a conceptual approach to il founded on. Acrl is offering education and consultation services to assist librarians in understanding the framework and applying it to the specific needs of their institutions. Framework for information literacy for higher education framework grows out of a belief that information literacy as an educational reform movement will realize its potential only through a richer, more complex set of core ideas. When accepted by the individual, threshold concepts may lead to an individual adopting a new way to see the world andor changes the way s he may think about their own and others choices. A delphi study education resources information center. In light of the new acrl framework for information literacy for higher education, the acrl student learning and information literacy committee slilc has compiled an annotated bibliography on threshold concepts, one of the educational theories underpinning the document. Information literacy competency standards for higher education provides a framework for assessing the information literate individual. The framework was formally adopted in 2016, when acrl also rescinded the former information literacy competency standards for higher education standards.
Threshold concepts as metaphors for the creative process. Toolkit acrl framework for information literacy toolkit. Il standards and the new framework for information literacy in higher. February 2016 acrl framework for information literacy. Mar 11, 2014 in order to really evaluate the threshold concepts appearing in the acrl s draft framework for information literacy for higher education, i had to wear two hats my librarian one and my instructional design one a good argument for blended librarianship.
Information literacy threshold concepts and the acrl. Three perspectives on information literacy in academia. Reading for integration, identifying complementary threshold concepts. Information literacy, however, is a transdisciplinary concept that addresses discourse within academic culture writ large. The information literacy competency standards for higher education, implemented almost fifteen years ago, are still in use. Undergraduate student reflections on information literacy threshold concepts. Information literacy is the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning. Lesson plans for librarians worldcat, edited by patricia bravender, hazel mcclure, and gayle schaub, and published in 2015 by acrl in chicago, il.
The association of college and research libraries acrl information literacy competency standards for higher education, since their publication in 2000, have drawn criticism for ignoring the social and political aspects of information literacy. Lesson plans for librarians, editors bravender, mcclure, and schaub 2015 bring together lesson plans in chapters addressing each of the new threshold concepts. The following update is crossposted at acrl insider. Engaging students in information literacy through cocurricular activities, edited by silvia vong and manda vrkljan. It provides teaching librarians detailed, readytouse, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts. A threshold concept represents seeing things in a new way. November 2018 this book provides information literacy practitioners with a thorough exploration of how threshold concepts can be applied to information literacy, identifying the important elements and connections between each concept and relating theory to practical methods that. Reading for integration, identifying complementary. Information literacy, aasl, acrl, standards, threshold concept, articulation. The notion of threshold concepts is at the heart of the new acrl framework for information literacy in higher education, and has been since draft 1.
Genre to teach information literacy concepts 257 christopher toth and hazel mcclure chapter. Acrl framework for information literacy for higher education. Investigating threshold concepts for il instruction. Lesson plans for librarians is a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. Preparation for the writing of the standards was based on two years of research on the information literacy needs. The framework is organized into six frames, each consisting of a concept central to information literacy, a set of knowledge practices, and a set of dispositions. Disciplinary applications of information literacy threshold concepts provides a balance of theoretical and practical to help readers both conceptually and pragmatically with their work in supporting student learning, including chapters in which librarians have designed learning outcomes aligned with the frames of the framework. Acrl announces the publication of the fun of motivation. Reframing information literacy as academic cultural capital. Part of the communications in computer and information science book. The authors, who began their research in threshold concepts at the same time as the use and discussion of information literacy threshold concepts increased in the united states, discuss how their work fits. The information literacy threshold concepts designer. South african journal of libraries and information science. Librarians hope to familiarize students with the realworld object that the.
Acrl has a history of supporting librarians in understanding and using the associations standards and guidelines. Information literacy and research practices 2 we are in an interesting moment in which librarians are changing their minds about just what information literacy means. Academic librarians without faculty status, guidelines for october 2011 pdf version academic librarian employment and governance systems, framework for draft june 2017. By using the new information literacy threshold concepts as metaphors for the creative process, a northern illinois university art faculty member and an art librarian collaborated to help students in an advanced studio photography class recognize the importance of research and information literacy skills in the development of their artistic. In addition, the creation of the acrl psychology information literacy standards included examining the research of librarians who provide instruction for. Research as inquiry acrl framework for information. The new framework for information literacy is a dramatic break from the previous association of college and research libraries acrl information literacy competency standards, but it does not. Threshold concepts for teaching information literacy in. Todays spotlight on scholarship features the article becoming gardeners. Reading for integration, identifying complementary threshold.
As such, the discursive nature of information literacy threshold concepts, as well as their associated dispositions and knowledge practices, articulate the ways in which students are expected to think like emerging scholars. Aligning the current with the proposed january 21, 2015 designerlibrarian 12 comments like many of you, i have been following the development of acrl s proposed information literacy competency standards for higher education. Keiser is an information resources management consultant located in the metropolitan washington, d. This collection brings together scholarship and pedagogy from multiple perspectives and disciplines, offering nuanced and complex perspectives on information literacy in the second decade of the 21st century. This paper investigates ways in which i leveraged both of these concepts to reconcile my pedagogical ideals with an attempt to honor a faculty members request. The american library association ala issued in year 2000 a. Acrl information literacy standards for higher education il standards which defines il as the. The association of college and research libraries acrl last updated their information literacy standards for higher education in 2000. Framework as a whole acrl framework for information. Beginning in 20, and running through the official adoption of the framework for information literacy in 2016, acrl followed a number of academic disciplines in identifying disciplinary concepts that would fit some of the five features of a threshold concept.
Ohv kdqgrxwv sgi chapter 1 crafting a credible message debbie morrow role 1high school student you have an assignment to describe the relationship between smell and memory. Librarians objections often center on acrls use of emerging theory to underpin their new standards document e. Information literacy in science, engineering, and technology disciplines is defined as a set of abilities to identify the need for information, procure the information, evaluate the information and subsequently revise the strategy for obtaining the information, to use the. Teaching information literacy threshold concepts lesson handouts zzz dod ruj dfuo. It also extends the work of the american association of school librarians task force on information literacy standards, thereby providing higher educa. The information literacy threshold concepts designer librarian. The threshold concept framework holds promise for librarians. Framework for information literacy for higher education american. How aasl learning standards inform acrls information. Information literacy preparation of preservice and. This weeks spotlight on scholarship features the book teaching information literacy threshold concepts. Reframing information literacy as academic cultural. Information literacy the wac clearinghouse colorado state.
Eventu ally, close to when the writing was due, hed type up using first a manual and. There are several examples for how threshold concepts are determined, taught and assessed including case studies and evidencebased assessment. This online blog and accompanying documents were part of the process used to create the new framework for information literacy for higher education, which were adopted in january 2015. The six regional accreditation boards have added information literacy to their standards. What are the 6 threshold concepts for information literacy. In teaching information literacy threshold concepts.
Jan 11, 2016 the list represents a wide variety of disciplines around threshold concepts and serves as an introduction to threshold concepts in the literature of educational theory. Jul 29, 2014 to keep up with the progress of redefining il, keisers detailed report on acrls work is rather helpful. The term threshold concepts has received a good deal of discussion among academic librarians since this paradigm shift forms the basis of the new framework for information literacy for higher education. Information literacy standards for science and engineering. Paper presented at the 3rd biennial threshold concepts symposium. For an overview of the discussion, see ian beilins recent lead pipe article.
Exploring the revision of the acrl information literacy. The framework for il draws upon both threshold concepts foundational. In order to really evaluate the threshold concepts appearing in the acrl s draft framework for information literacy for higher education, i had to wear two hats my librarian one and my instructional design one a good argument for blended librarianship. Standards, guidelines, and frameworks alphabetical list. Importantly, threshold concepts are not the same as core concepts. The association for college and research libraries acrl information literacy standards are currently under revision. There are also credit courses offered by academic librarians to prepare college students to become information literate. Blackmore and freeland proposed a different approach to developing an information literacy program based on threshold concepts that relates information skills to not only information searching but also emotions, cultural understandings, and bricolage. Disciplinary applications of information literacy threshold concepts provides a balance of theoretical and practical to help readers both conceptually and pragmatically with their work in supporting student learning, including chapters in which librarians have.
Teaching information literacy faculty teaching tools. They are instead an altogether new way of looking at information literacy. Acrl announces the publication of disciplinary applications of information literacy threshold concepts, edited by samantha godbey, susan beth wainscott, and xan goodman. Information literacy threshold concepts and the association. It provides teaching librarians detailed, readytouse, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy. Integrating and applying information literacy and writing instruction barry maid and barbara dangelo arizona state university originally approved in 2000, the association of college and research libraries acrl information literacy standards for higher education il standards. Acrl announces the publication of learning beyond the classroom. Using the acrl framework to develop a studentcentered model for programlevel assessment introduction large scale information literacy programming is a constant balance between quality and quantity, requiring partnership with hundreds of sections of a course, or courses, and enormous human, physical, and fiscal resources. Information literacy competency standards for nursing. Literacy dedicated to the acrl information literacy standards revision, hofer, brunetti. Framing the acrl framework trudi jacobson, cochair acrl information literacy standards for higher education task force head, information literacy department university at albany. The acrl information literacy competency standards task force responded with the framework for information literacy in higher education, which.
During the fifteen years since the publication of the information literacy competency standards for higher. November 2018 this book provides information literacy practitioners with a thorough exploration of how threshold concepts can be applied to information literacy, identifying the important elements and connections between each concept and relating theory to practical methods that can transform how librarians teach. A delphi study lori townsend university of new mexico amy r. Framework for information literacy for higher education. Similarly, burkhardts 2016 teaching information literacy reframed, offers more than 50 frameworkbased exercises. Alphabetical list of acrl standards, guidelines, and frameworks. A threshold concept can be considered as akin to a portal, opening up a new and previously inaccessible way of thinking about something. This guide supports the workshop crossing the threshold with threshold concepts, versions of which were presented at the 2015 acrl conference, 2015 european conference on information literacy, and 2016 ala annual conference. The standards had been the foundation for most il instruction for the previous decade, using performance indicators and outcomes to deliver skillsbased training to achieve il. Teaching information literacy with processbased research assignments, by mary snyder. It provides teaching librarians detailed, readytouse. Access to research materials in archives and special collections libraries, alarbmssaa guidelines on. In revisiting their information literacy standards, acrl s task force reconceptualised information literacy as a framework, with frames that describe threshold concepts characterizing of domain of information literacy. Mapping curriculum learning outcomes to acrls framework.
Disciplinary applications of information literacy threshold. Threshold concepts and the framework for information literacy. The acrl framework for information literacy for higher education highlights the concepts of metaliteracy and metacognition. In june 2012, the acrl board approved a unanimous recommendation that the information literacy competency standards for higher education be significantly revised. The six threshold concepts outlined in the framework for information literacy for higher education are not simply a revision of acrl s previous information literacy competency standards for higher education. Since july 2015, the acrl framework for information literacy advisory board fab has been actively working with the acrl visiting program officer vpo for information literacy to create a supportive and interactive environment for librarians to learn how to use the framework. Threshold concepts of writing studies information literacy programs and firstyear writing programs have a documented history. Slilc annotated bibliography on threshold concepts acrl. The acrl psychology information literacy standards also build on the guidelines for minimal training for psychology majors first proposed by merriam, labaugh, and butterfield 1992. About acrl information literacy competency standards for. In 25 chapters divided into sections mirroring acrl s framework for information literacy for higher educationauthority is constru.
In this exploratory study the author asks students enrolled in a creditbearing undergraduate research methods course to rank and evaluate the troublesome, transformative, and integrative nature of the six frames currently comprising the framework for information. The acrl framework in conversation with naming what we know. Publication acrl framework for information literacy sandbox. Jun, 2019 this is a list of frameworkrelated resources published or sponsored by acrl. Before i delve into them though, id like to say a few words about the process. Exploring transformative dimensions of threshold concepts.
Information literacy united states standards framework controversy. Publications acrl framework for information literacy for. Lccn 2016048671 isbn 9781642150834 pdf isbn 9781 642150841. It also extends the work of the american association of school librarians task force on information. Jul 29, 2015 recording of the july 29, 2015 acrl presents. Nov 21, 2019 the acrl framework for information literacy focuses on threshold concepts, which are those ideas in any discipline that are passageways or portals to enlarged understanding or ways of thinking and practicing within that discipline. Information literacy competency standards for higher education. The notion has also been problematic to many librarians since draft 1. Crossing the threshold concepts by mary francis, book number 71 in acrl s publications in librarianship series.
Second, rethink the notion that information literacy is composed of a set of abilities for extracting information. As a result, several new concepts have been introduced that will no doubt. The book is intended as a guide and inspiration for instruction librarians to teach the foundational ideas of information literacy and. Programlevel acrl framework for information literacy. The framework, organized around six threshold concepts in information literacy as identified in recent research, reflects developments in the information landscape as threshold concepts have become influential. While the framework does an admirable job of showing how threshold concepts can help shift information literacy toward a pedagogy that stresses the development of selfcritical and selfconscious learning in the student, it does not state as its goal the formation of possible solidarities for the student to help change the information system. Lesson plans for librarians, edited by patricia bravender, hazel mcclure, and gayle schaub. Librarians often are required to teach the concepts of information literacy during one shot classroom lectures. Seeing the world through adult eyes ludovico college. The information literacy competency standards for higher education originally approved in january 2000 were rescinded by the acrl board of directors on june 25, 2016, at the 2016 ala annual conference in orlando, florida, which means they are no longer in force.
Jul 21, 2017 this guide supports the workshop crossing the threshold with threshold concepts, versions of which were presented at the 2015 acrl conference, 2015 european conference on information literacy, and 2016 ala annual conference. In four sections, this book contains approaches and activities to help instructors incorporate information literacy concepts into cocurricular learning and aid. This innovative book combines theory with specific lesson plans and assessment options to help readers explore, implement, and assess this powerful means of motivation. The information literacy competency standards for higher education standards, first published in 2000, enabled colleges and universities to position information literacy as an essential learning outcome in the curriculum and promoted linkages with general education programs, service learning, problembased learning, and other pedagogies focused on deeper learning. Using the acrl framework to develop a studentcentered. Home crossing the threshold libguides at university of. Information literacy competency standards for higher. The lessons in this book, created by teaching librarians across the country, are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the acrl. Where the information literacy competency standards for higher education focused on finding and evaluating particular kinds of information, the framework allows us the flexibility to teach the same concepts, even when we dont have the online tools upon which we might normally rely.
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