The library has created an Information Literacy Resources Web page to aid you in incorporating information literacy principles into your curriculum, lectures, and classroom activities. Please use it freely and do provide us with feedback on how we can make this page more effective.
College Success--what a tremendous opportunity we have to provide students a practical and holistic prescription for success in college.What better venue exists at PCC to properly instruct students in the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to make them effective and efficient researchers and users of information? What better platform exists at PCC to teach INFORMATION LITERACY? Consider the following definition of Information Literacy:
Information Literacy is the set of abilities requiring individuals to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information." (Association of College & Research Libraries, http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilintro.html - ildef)
By structuring our College Success curriculum to include an information literacy component and by using our common curriculum as a foundation for each section, we - as College Success instructors and librarians - can work together to ensure that our students achieve a level of information skills proficiency which they can build upon as they progress through PCC.
Information literate students:
Information literacy is powerful concept that can ensure student success at PCC and beyond if it is correctly implemented into our curriculum. Information Literacy can demystify the complex array of available information technologies, products, and resources and encourage students to develop analytical and critical thinking skills that will serve them as independent learners and will feed their intellectual curiosities. Information Literacy is a paradigm with national scope. Colleges and universities across the U.S. are adopting an information literacy across the curriculum approach. (See National Information Literacy Guidelines for Higher Education.)
Your PCC library and our staff of professional librarians are ready to work alongside of College Success faculty to support and supplement your instructional activities with information literacy instruction and support services. We can:
to
support your teaching activities.
Your PCC Librarians are:
Bill Foege (ext. 6203 or 5040)
Chris Fullerton (ext. 5326)
Sarah Johnson (ext. 5311)
Ivy Prewitt (ext. 5312)
Helen Schmidt (6205)
Courtlann Dixon (ext. 6267)
On behalf of my colleagues in the library, I welcome you as colleagues in our College Success program. We will do everything in our power to support you and to ensure that our students receive the kind of information literacy training that can ensure their success as they progress through their college experiences.
Please allow me to close this letter with a quotation that I believe best acknowledges the importance of our working together to achieve our outcomes for College Success.
“Gaining skills in information literacy multiplies the opportunities for students’ self-directed learning, as they become engaged in using a wide variety of information sources to expand their knowledge, ask informed questions, and sharpen their critical thinking for still further self-directed learning.
Achieving competency in information literacy requires an understanding that this cluster of abilities is not extraneous to the curriculum, but is woven into the curriculum’s content, structure, and sequence.”
(Association of College and research Libraries. Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. (Http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html
Sincerely,
Bill Foege
Director, IT Public Services