Castleton's librarians have taken the 6 threshold concepts of the ACRL's 2016 Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and broken them into 13 information literacy topics, defining each topic with inquiries and mapping those topics to the Framework concepts. See our growing suite of librarian-developed activities covering these 13 topics at http://libguides.castleton.edu/integinfolit. These activities can be delivered by librarians or faculty.
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Framework Concepts |
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What is information? How is it created? |
Information Creation as a Process |
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What is the value of information? How is it useful? |
Information Has Value |
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What is scholarship? How is information used in scholarship? |
Information Has Value; Scholarship as Conversation; Research as Inquiry |
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What is authority? Why does authority matter? |
Authority Is Constructed and Contextual |
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What is credibility? What makes a source credible? What makes a source useful? |
Authority Is Constructed and Contextual; Information Has Value |
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What is the value of incorporating the work of others into our own work? How can we accurately represent the sources that we use? |
Information Has Value; Information Creation as a Process; Scholarship as Conversation |
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What are the ethics associated with using information? How can we ethically incorporate the work of others into our own work? |
Information Has Value; Scholarship as Conversation |
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Why do we do research? What role does curiosity play in research? |
Research as Inquiry |
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How do we find information? How can we adapt our research strategies to different environments and research questions? |
Research as Inquiry; Searching as Strategic Exploration; Information Has Value |
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Who produces information? How is that information shared? How can we best use different types and formats of information? |
Information Creation as a Process; Scholarship as Conversation |
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Where do we find information? How do we gather what we find? |
Research as Inquiry; Searching as Strategic Exploration; |
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What is the value to scholars of sharing information? How can we share our own work? |
Scholarship as Conversation |
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How is information shared in a particular discipline or profession? How do we locate this information? |
Searching as Strategic Exploration |