A collaborative voyage to improve students' career information literacy

Authors

Angela Farrar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Lateka Grays, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Diane VanderPol, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Amanda Cox, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

5-2007

Publication Title

35th National LOEX Library Instruction Conference Proceedings

Publisher

LOEX

First page number:

9

Last page number:

13

Abstract

Librarians, a member of the Hotel College faculty, and a member of the Career Services staff at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas collaborated in the design, implementation and evaluation of a non-traditional research assignment asking students to demonstrate real world information literacy skills.

Session attendees will explore the process by which the traditional librarian-teaching faculty member collaboration grew into a richer project involving a non-traditional partnering. Attendees will be guided through a discussion on levels of collaboration and an audit of potential non-traditional partner opportunities at their own institutions.

Attendees will examine the product of this partnership: an assignment that asks students to generate informed questions to ask in a job interview. The assignment was designed to be useable in larger classes where a classic “term paper” style research assignment might be unrealistic to effectively administer and grade. After a session with the librarians on conducting research, students enrolled in a course on professional development within the hospitality industry are required to develop questions that they might ask of an interviewer that demonstrate the company- and industry-specific knowledge they gleaned via their research. Students are motivated by the idea of positioning themselves favorably in an interview in a way that a traditional term paper on a company or an industry fails to motivate. Attendees will brainstorm ways a similar approach (assigning the development of informed questions) might be used in different settings.

Keywords

Homework; Information literacy – Study and teaching; Lesson planning; Library orientation

Disciplines

Curriculum and Instruction | Information Literacy | Library and Information Science | Other Business

Language

English

Repository Citation

Farrar, A., Grays, L., VanderPol, D., Cox, A. (2007). A collaborative voyage to improve students' career information literacy. 35th National LOEX Library Instruction Conference Proceedings 9-13. LOEX.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/lib_articles/295