1. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: Negotiating Information Literacy and Information Overload With Incoming Students
Rebecca C. Albrecht and Sarah K. Burns
Pace University Library
LOEX of the West - June 9, 2000

2. Search Exercise Groups of 2 or 3
Refer to the Pace Library Home Page handout
Write down the first three things you would do to address your research scenario

3. Overview of UNV 101 Program
Required for all first-year students
Provides strategies for college success
Goal is to help the students become “better decision makers and critical thinkers” and to better understand the Pace community

4. Fertile Soil: Pace Westchester’s Library Instruction Program
Active instruction program needed more consistency
1998 Mission statement
To support the library’s mission to “provide guidance” and “promote information literacy”…

5. Fertile Soil (cont.) Mission Statement (cont.)
Provide each participant with the ability to adapt intellectually and technologically to an increasingly dynamic environment …
Empower Pace University students to become critical thinkers and competent users of information resources…

6. Fertile Soil (cont.)
Instruction program was had been mostly faculty-driven
Need to reach a broader audience in order to meet our stated goals
UNV 101 was an opportunity to meet lower skill level needs and build a foundation

7. The Crop to be Planted: Developing UNV 101 Library Sessions
Incorporation of Immersion ’99 ideas
Reference to the ACRL Standards/ Performance Indicators
Recognized the value of UNV 101

8. Sowing Seeds: The Session
Designed to be active and collaborative
Gives ownership of the learning to the students
Encourages students to think critically about how they might use library resources

9. Sowing Seeds (cont.)
Allows us and the students to get on-the-spot assessment
The students model the process of a research strategy
Gives the students some basic and transferable skills to take them beyond UNV 101

10. Weeding: Evaluation of the Program
Librarian self evaluations and discussions
Student evaluations
Faculty impressions and feedback

11. The Next Generation Mock syllabus idea from LOEX 2000
Scheduling of sessions earlier in the semester
Add the questions to the scenario handouts
Keep questions on the whiteboard throughout the session to appeal to visual learners

12. The Next Generation (cont.)
Library session materials were included in general UNV 101 packets which went to faculty
Update and objectives
Brochures on the library instruction program’s Information Literacy goals
“Creating Effective Research Assignments” guidelines

13. Questions or Suggestions?
Sarah K. Burns
Rebecca C. Albrecht