ACRL Framework Poster Cross-Institutional Collaboration

Jill Hallam-Miller, Nancy Frazier, and Ben Hoover (Bucknell University)

Research Services librarians at Bucknell University collaborated on a project to re-conceptualize the new Association of College & Research Libraries’ “Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education” to make the research concepts it represents accessible to students. We developed an open educational resource in the form of digital and physical posters that we shared with the academic library community at large.

The posters facilitate discussion about the research process in the classroom; faculty and librarians use poster content to clarify research concepts for students. We have received feedback from librarians at other institutions who are excited about using and modifying the posters. We have removed institutional borders by creating a repository for capturing ideas for reusing, remixing, and re-conceptualizing the posters to encourage continued development and improvement of the project, opening pathways for librarians, instructional technologists, and faculty to collaborate on student-centered information literacy instruction.
Access the posters at http://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/framework

Jill Hallam-Miller is the Blended Learning Librarian and the liaison librarian to the School/College of Management at Bucknell. She provides information literacy instruction and research assistance on campus. Her research interests include universal and instructional design. She earned her MSLS from Clarion University of Pennsylvania, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in educational technology through Boise State University.

Nancy Frazier is the Instructional Services Librarian and the liaison librarian for the departments of History, Political Science, and International Relations.  She coordinates the library instruction program, with Bucknell librarians teaching approximately 250 information literacy sessions a year.  Nancy teaches and collaborates with faculty to help students find and evaluate resources for their academic work and beyond.  She earned her MLS from SUNY at Buffalo.

Ben Hoover is the Evening Library Services Specialist at Bucknell.  He actively provides outreach to students and student-centered stakeholders on campus in addition to teaching library workshops and hosting library orientations for various student populations.  Ben’s work focuses on easing students’ trepidation with using the Bertrand library and its resources .  He earned his B.A. and M.S.ED. from Bucknell University.


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