Teaching Information Literacy through Faculty Development

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Provides an approach to information literacy centered around faculty development to support academic librarians in building more scalable, sustainable, and impactful information literacy programs.

Academic librarians devote significant effort to teaching information literacy, often in one-shot sessions. However, the one-shot has received criticism for its pedagogical ineffectiveness and its impact on librarians professional status and personal well-being.

This resource provides an overview of an alternative approach, the faculty-focused model, also known as the teach the teachers or train the trainers approach. In this model, librarians concentrate their efforts primarily on faculty development, which has the potential to allow them to develop more scalable, sustainable, and impactful information literacy programs. This practical guide explores the benefits and concerns associated with the model, gives examples of library-led faculty development initiatives and librarian involvement in campus-level faculty development, and offers recommendations for building faculty development into an information literacy program. Librarians will appreciate the books guidance on making the mental shift necessary to adopt a more faculty-focused approach and its willingness to address concerns that librarians may have about the model.

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Jane Hammons is Assistant Professor and Teaching & Learning Engagement Librarian at The Ohio State University, USA. Her work focuses on supporting the integration of information literacy into the curriculum through faculty development. She has authored or co-authored several peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication in journals including the Journal of Academic Librarianship, College & Research Libraries, portal: Libraries and the Academy, Journal of Information Literacy, and Journal of Faculty Development.