You can help your students develop effective research skills--information literacy--in the following ways:
To request a class session, complete this request form. To speak to a librarian about developing assignments, creating a LibGuide or having someone embedded in your course, contact your campus library.
With information coming at us from an unprecedented variety of sources, developing the ability to think critically about the information we use and share has become increasingly important, and increasingly challenging.
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) defines Information literacy as the set of integrated abilities encompassing:
For more information, see ACRL's Information Literacy Framework
As a professor, and as an expert in your field, you already know how to design assignments that reinforce the concepts you introduce in class. If your assignments include a research component, you can also help your students develop information literacy skills.
Whatever the activity, you will want to be aware of best practices for incorporating information literacy into the assignments you create. This document shares some helpful tips and you can see the infographic for it below.