ILI SIG Notes - 8/14/24
Participants: 4 Academic Librarians
Discussion of the article: "Giving up the Good Fight? Librarians and Information Literacy," an interview with Amber Willenborg and Robert Detmering
The group had a discussion on opinions presented in the article.
These included:
- Should librarians be responsible for the totality of information literacy instruction?
- Is it even possible to cover everything we know that students need to know within the constraints of the current one-off model of library instruction?
- We want to do more than “How to Library,” but we know that is what students need when we see them
- How do we start incorporating newer topics into our lessons, such as AI, open access, misinformation, etc.?
The group discussed how First Year instruction sessions were structured, scheduled, and who was responsible for instruction at their institutions.
- The desire for more time with students, and more conversation with instructors, as well as incorporating more information literacy concepts into these classes outside of the library one-off session was talked about
- Also mentioned was the lack of instruction we notice after the First Year experience. For some students that is the only library instruction they see, and are expected by faculty to remember throughout their time in college