Instruction
The Purchase College Library offers research instruction tailored specifically to any individual, class, assignment, group, or club.
To request an information literacy/research skills instruction session, please contact your Subject liaison librarian. If your discipline does not have a liaison listed, or you are not sure who to contact, please email Kim Detterbeck, Instruction Coordinator, or fill out the Library Instruction Request Form.
In-person, Virtual, and Hybrid Instruction
Librarians can conduct instruction sessions remotely/virtually and in-person. The Library is fully able to support remote, online, and dual delivery classes, both synchronously and asynchronously and in-person classes. Your librarian will discuss options with you including Teams guest lectures, tutorials, course guides, librarian integration into Brightspace, and more. Please consult with your Subject liaison librarian.
ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education
Purchase College’s instruction librarians work under the theoretical “Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education” from the Association of College and Research Libraries. The framework is based on a “cluster of interconnected core concepts” or threshold concepts within each discipline. The main tenets or frames of this approach are:
- Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
- Information Creation as a Process
- Information Has Value
- Research as Inquiry
- Scholarship as Conversation
- Searching as Strategic Exploration
Information literacy is the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning.
Resources
Developing Research Assignments
Best Practices for Scheduling Instruction
To request an information literacy/research skills instruction session, please contact your Subject liaison librarian. If your discipline does not have a liaison listed, or you are not sure who to contact, please email Kim Detterbeck, Instruction Coordinator, or fill out the Library Instruction Request Form.