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Open Source Lesson Plans for Teaching Information Literacy

Faculty-Librarian Collaborations: Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses
The lesson plans taken from this book are linked below, and are free for noncommercial use if attributed. Citations in MLA format are included under each link.

Each lesson plan demonstrates how information literacy (IL) standards can be taught if they are integrated into a college course. They give learning outcomes, class activities, material lists, and assessment ideas tailored to certain subjects.

IL for Communications
An example of how to integrate IL frameworks in a Communications class, with four modules and assignments to work from.
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Piotto, Livia. “Evaluating News through the Exploration of Bias.” Faculty-Librarian Collaborations : Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses, edited by Stöpel Michael, et al. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020, pp. 163-169.
IL for History
An example of how to integrate information literacy concepts into an introductory history class.
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Stevanovic, Ivana. “A Collaborative Effort toward a Different Information Literacy Experience.” Faculty-Librarian Collaborations : Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses, edited by Stöpel Michael, et al. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020, pp. 215-222.
IL for Interdisciplinary Academic Writing
This lesson plan is aimed at integrating information literacy tenets into a general higher-level English writing course.
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Charafeddine, Fatmeh. “Research in the Discipline.” Faculty-Librarian Collaborations : Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses, edited by Stöpel Michael, et al. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020, pp. 207-213.
IL for Introductory Writing
This gives a simple template to add information literacy components to expository writing and similar beginner classes.
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Zargaryan, Tatev. “Identifying Information Sources.” Faculty-Librarian Collaborations : Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses, edited by Stöpel Michael, et al. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020, pp. 151-154.
IL for Oral Communications
An outline for working in information literacy standards into a speech-making class aimed at freshmen.
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Stevanovic, Ivana “Fear Not the Oral Communications Courses: Information Literacy in a Less Traditional Context.” Faculty-Librarian Collaborations : Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses, edited by Stöpel Michael, et al. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020, pp. 183-198.
IL for Graduate Research Courses
This was first created for a higher-level English writing course, but is broad enough to be applied to many graduate courses involving research.
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Charafeddine, Fatmeh. “Getting Started with Graduate Research.” Faculty-Librarian Collaborations : Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses, edited by Stöpel Michael, et al. Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020, pp. 145-149.