Best Practices for Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses

Best Practices for Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses is a collection of previously unpublished papers in which contributing authors describe and recommend best practices for creating, developing, and teaching credit-bearing information literacy (IL) courses at the college and university level. The editor solicited academic librarians from universities, four-year colleges, and community colleges to contribute chapters that demonstrate successful IL course endeavors at their respective institutions. The book includes several case studies of both classroom and online IL courses; some are elective and some required, some are discipline-specific, and others are integrated into academic programs or departments. Contributors discuss useful and effective methods for developing, teaching, assessing, and marketing the course. Also included are chapters on theoretical approaches to the course and on the history of it in higher education. Organized around three themes create, develop, and teach this book provides practitioners and administrators with a start-to-finish guide to best practices for credit-bearing IL courses.


This book is suitable for community college, college, and university libraries as well as a pedagogical tool for library and information schools.