Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Conference Strand
Outreach and Partnership
Target Audience
Higher Education
Second Target Audience
K-12
Location
Ballroom A
Relevance
This presentation outlines the process of building a program to encourage faculty in first-year courses to assign extra credit assignments where students meet individually with a librarian. This fosters "collaboration between librarians and faculty to support student inquiry", one of the topics listed in the call for proposals.
Proposal
One of the challenges facing librarians is getting exposure to students to teach information literacy skills. Faculty engagement with the library can vary greatly, with many faculty simply not having available class time to allow librarians in the classroom. As a possible alternative means of connecting with students, an Extra Credit Hub was created. This hub is an easily located, visible resource for faculty to share potential extra credit activities with students.
The Hub, which is a standalone Canvas course, includes a number of activities related to key information literacy skills, such as:
- Recognizing bias, misinformation, and disinformation
- Critical thinking skills when evaluating information generated through artificial intelligence
- Understanding peer-reviewed journal articles and levels of research
- How to select appropriate sources for research and synthesize information
- Building skills for evaluating digital media sources
Students are directed to go to the extra credit Hub by their professor. The Hub is a repository for five distinct “choose your own adventure” style, research pathways. Each pathway describes one grouping of key information literacy topics. Students review the information in the Hub and are then directed to schedule an in-person consultation with a librarian on this topic. Librarians will meet with the student(s) to discuss the concepts and ideas. After completing the consultation, students will be responsible for completing a reflection log and submitting completed logs with librarian signatures to their course instructor.
This presentation will outline the process to create the Extra Credit Hub, the activities included in the Hub, and share feedback solicited from faculty .
This program benefits students in independently obtaining information literacy knowledge, the development of communication and problem-solving skills, and connecting them with librarians and library resources. Teaching faculty benefit from this program by having ready-made extra credit opportunities that reinforce academic concepts. Librarians will benefit from increased traffic in the library and the ability to champion information literacy.
Attendees will be able to:
- Identify outreach methods to entice students to schedule a research consultation
- Identify information literacy targets/concepts/ideas for their populations
- Learn marketing strategies for course promotion and faculty buy-in
Short Description
A challenge facing librarians is getting exposure to teach information literacy skills to students. To develop a new avenue to connect with students, an Extra Credit Hub was created. This hub is a resource for faculty to share extra credit activities with students which require them to meet with a librarian to discuss one of five information literacy topics. This presentation will outline the process to create the Extra Credit Hub, the activities included in the Hub, and faculty feedback.
Keywords
Information Literacy, AI Literacy, Curriculum Development, Collaboration, Faculty Partnerships
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Garner, Chereeka; Miller, Katy; and Montgomery, Renee Cole, "When You Can't Get a One-Shot, Try a One Off" (2026). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 18.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2026/2026/18
When You Can't Get a One-Shot, Try a One Off
Ballroom A
One of the challenges facing librarians is getting exposure to students to teach information literacy skills. Faculty engagement with the library can vary greatly, with many faculty simply not having available class time to allow librarians in the classroom. As a possible alternative means of connecting with students, an Extra Credit Hub was created. This hub is an easily located, visible resource for faculty to share potential extra credit activities with students.
The Hub, which is a standalone Canvas course, includes a number of activities related to key information literacy skills, such as:
- Recognizing bias, misinformation, and disinformation
- Critical thinking skills when evaluating information generated through artificial intelligence
- Understanding peer-reviewed journal articles and levels of research
- How to select appropriate sources for research and synthesize information
- Building skills for evaluating digital media sources
Students are directed to go to the extra credit Hub by their professor. The Hub is a repository for five distinct “choose your own adventure” style, research pathways. Each pathway describes one grouping of key information literacy topics. Students review the information in the Hub and are then directed to schedule an in-person consultation with a librarian on this topic. Librarians will meet with the student(s) to discuss the concepts and ideas. After completing the consultation, students will be responsible for completing a reflection log and submitting completed logs with librarian signatures to their course instructor.
This presentation will outline the process to create the Extra Credit Hub, the activities included in the Hub, and share feedback solicited from faculty .
This program benefits students in independently obtaining information literacy knowledge, the development of communication and problem-solving skills, and connecting them with librarians and library resources. Teaching faculty benefit from this program by having ready-made extra credit opportunities that reinforce academic concepts. Librarians will benefit from increased traffic in the library and the ability to champion information literacy.
Attendees will be able to:
- Identify outreach methods to entice students to schedule a research consultation
- Identify information literacy targets/concepts/ideas for their populations
- Learn marketing strategies for course promotion and faculty buy-in
