Information Is Power! Using a Themed Freshman Year Experience Course to Teach Info Literacy

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

Robin Grant, Macon State College, GAFollow

Location

Room 2010

Abstract

See presentation description.

Presentation Description

Last fall, Macon State College began offering themed sections of its three-credit Freshman Year Experience course. The Library saw this as an opportunity to go beyond the one-shot library instruction class and offered a themed section entitled “Information is Power!” In this presentation, the librarian/instructor will share her experiences combining a Freshman Year Experience class with an information literacy class, as well as her reflections on working with the same group of students throughout a semester versus teaching them for one fifty-minute library session.

Keywords

Information literacy, Freshman year experience, Macon State College

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Grant, Robin, "Information Is Power! Using a Themed Freshman Year Experience Course to Teach Info Literacy" (2012). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 6.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2012/2012/6