I am finally dropping the first shoe! My Innovation Strategy and Roadmap focuses on promoting the Information Literacy initiative in libraries. This is a topic I’ve become interested in ever since I started exploring the challenges we face with having access to so many streams of information on a daily basis. Credit goes to these courses for fueling my train of thought:
- INFO 286: Interpersonal Communication Skills for Librarians, where I wrote about the connection between empathy and online communication.
- INFO 287: Digital Libraries, where I wrote a term paper about information overload and fatigue.
- INFO 254: Information Literacy and Learning, the other course I took this semester to learn about how to teach information literacy, and how to teach others the ability to teach themselves.
View the link to my Google Slides presentation here.
3 Comments
December 7, 2024 at 12:02 pm
Hi Bethany,
This is cool! I took Information Literacy and Learning last year and even though the course focused mostly on academic libraries, I think it’s super important for public libraries to incorporate it into their programming as well. Great job!
Alice
December 7, 2024 at 8:11 pm
Thank you, Alice! It would be great to see this concept presented by libraries outside of just an academic context. There are all sorts of ways to make the teaching interesting, and program ideas can be very flexible.
December 8, 2024 at 7:49 pm
Hi Bethany, great work! Information literacy is so important, and definitely is something we need to continually be refreshed on as technology advances and changes. Having this in the public library makes a lot of sense for that reason. Thanks for sharing!