Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Rocco Piccinino, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

substantive introduction to information literacy, building on first-semester writing intensive courses and a college-wide online quiz-tutorial to offer discipline-specific instruction in information literacy. This course lays the groundwork for additionalinformation literacy instruction throughout the engineering core curriculum and in the capstonedesign clinic.Information literacy topics are integrated with course material in mass and energy balances usingthe organizing vehicle of a semester-long project on Life-Cycle Assessment. The engineeringlibrarian taught a class that was tailored to the course and the LCA projects; developed a course-specific web site to direct students to relevant library resources they would use in completing theproject