Every Valpo college, department, or program has a subject librarian who works closely with you and with our students. Give us a call, send us an email, invite us to a departmental meeting, or stop by for a coffee break with us at Grinders!
Your subject (liaison) librarian will:
Request support for your classes or make an appointment with your subject librarian to discuss how we can collaborate to best support our students' information literacy education.
Note: These are meant to be course level learning objectives. They can be used to asses information literacy within individual courses.
Note: These are meant to be program level learning objectives. They can be used to asses information literacy at the programmatic level.
The Information Literacy Program Objectives and Learning Indicators document was written by library faculty to support the on-going work of Valpo's Information Literacy Program which includes, as a core objective, vertical curricular integration of information literacy across disciplines.
The document was designed to meet the needs of Valpo's community of learners while drawing on the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The Framework places information literacy within a conceptual structure where the organizing “frames” are threshold concepts.
The six frames:
1. Scholarship as Conversation
2. Research as Inquiry
3. Authority is Constructed and Contextual
4. Information Creation as a Process
5. Searching as Strategic Exploration
6. Information has Value
Valpo's library faculty turned these frames into measurable program-level learning objectives for our Information Literacy Program. The program's seven learning objectives are linked to one of the corresponding frames; the Information has Value frame is linked to two objectives.
In the Learning Indicators section, the document unpacks each objective using language and examples.