Bibliographic Instruction |
Information Literacy |
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| Responsibility/Control | Librarian-controlled | Collaborative Responsibility |
| Relation to curriculum | External/Tangential | Integral |
| Placement in curriculum | Isolated learning episodes (one-shot, workshop, unlinked credit courses | Pervasive throughout the curriculum (linked credit courses, competency requirements) |
| Content focus | Tools, search interface | Overarching concepts, critical thinking processes, thinking standards |
| Teaching Methods | Librarian control/didactic approaches | Construction of learning environments; librarian and faculty act as guides |
| Learning transfer | Limited | Increased due to multiple learning opportunities |
| Assessment | Focus on limited evaluations, skill-based measurements | Focus on competencies, standards as yardstick for outcomes based approaches |
| Relationship to place | Focus on specific libraries | Focus on unbounded universe of information |
| Role of technology | Limited, used in relatively inflexible ways | Expanded role, variety of technologies selected to match instructional situations |
Adapted from materials from Elisabeth Leonard.
