Event Type
Lightning Talk
Description
Information literacy is essential for success in a business degree program and in any future career. Business librarians play a pivotal role in helping students learn to locate and ethically use high-quality data from reliable sources. By collaborating with business professors and engaging in classroom activities, librarians effectively connect students with crucial library resources, teaching them how to select and utilize the best tools.
I will highlight a successful partnership with business faculty who identified a skills gap and sought to introduce information literacy early in the undergraduate curriculum. Through over a decade of building relationships, we seized the opportunity to develop two modules in a mandatory undergraduate course, Introduction to Business. These modules teach students how to cite sources and effectively navigate databases and other search tools to find top-tier business information.
A Strategic Alliance: Collaborating with Business Faculty for Information Literacy
Information literacy is essential for success in a business degree program and in any future career. Business librarians play a pivotal role in helping students learn to locate and ethically use high-quality data from reliable sources. By collaborating with business professors and engaging in classroom activities, librarians effectively connect students with crucial library resources, teaching them how to select and utilize the best tools.
I will highlight a successful partnership with business faculty who identified a skills gap and sought to introduce information literacy early in the undergraduate curriculum. Through over a decade of building relationships, we seized the opportunity to develop two modules in a mandatory undergraduate course, Introduction to Business. These modules teach students how to cite sources and effectively navigate databases and other search tools to find top-tier business information.