Information and Digital Literacy Journal Club: Using a multimedia DH lab to incorporate ACRL framework standards into liberal arts education
The next Information and Digital Literacy Journal Club will be led by Araz Margossian (American University of Armenia). We will discuss the article “Visualizing oral histories: A lab model using multimedia DH to incorporate ACRL framework standards into liberal arts education” written by Krista White, in 2017.
Here are some discussion questions:
- Do you have a similar model of faculty-librarian collaboration/partnership incorporating the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in your institution? If not, do you see opportunities for implementing a similar model?
- What opportunities and challenges do you perceive in this strategy of attaching an optional DH (or other) lab taught by a librarian to an existing course?
- What do you think about this model of delivering Information and Digital literacies skills to the students vs one shot sessions vs teaching a credit-bearing IL course?
- Do you agree with the idea that digital natives enjoy advantages over digital immigrants in acquiring and developing Digital literacy skills?
- Can we map other elements of ACRL Framework for Information Literacy into the DH lab in this article?
- The article indicates that “Faculty and students all exhibit high confidence in their research abilities using internet resources without assistance from librarians, which results in lower librarian-researcher contact on all levels.” (p395). Based on your observations and experience, do you agree with this statement?
- As a librarian, how do you feel about new roles in librarianship distributed outside the library?