FACULTY: Library Instruction

The LSC CyFair Library offers both in-person and online synchronous and asynchronous options for library instruction.

Explore the links on the flyer below for more information on all modes of library instruction.

When you're ready to request a class session or online support from a librarian, fill out the Library Instruction Form. The Instruction Librarian will contact you within 24-48 hours to confirm and discuss your needs: 

The guiding document for teaching information literacy in higher education is the Association of College & Research Libraries' (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.

The ideas underpinning the Framework are metacognition and threshold concepts. 

Metacognition is thinking and reflecting on your own learning. In the Framework, students are recognized as both content creators and consumers and are encouraged to think about their information behaviors through both lenses. 

There are six threshold concepts in the Framework. Libraries, institutions of higher education, and disciplines may determine other threshold concepts that are central to information use in their field. 

The six threshold concepts are:

• Authority is Constructed and Contextual

• Information Has Value

• Information Creation as a Process

• Research as Inquiry

• Scholarship as Conversation

• Searching as Strategic Exploration

Each concept is defined and described by how novice and expert learners engage with that concept. Each threshold concept includes knowledge practices and dispositions that can be measured by learners who have grasped that concept.

Librarians and faculty can collaborate to create student learning outcomes based on threshold concepts, knowledge practices, and dispositions as a basis for information literacy instruction sessions, active learning activities, and custom learning objects.