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The Library offers a variety of instructional programming that includes curriculum-integrated sessions, multimedia software trainings, and online learning modules to support the development of students' information and digital literacy.
Faculty and teaching assistants may request curriculum-integrated library instruction sessions to introduce undergraduate and graduate students to the major library research tools and techniques in specific disciplines. Teaching the use of subscription databases and discovery layers helps to provide timely access to licensed scholarly and popular literature, primary sources and proprietary data. Instructional emphasis is placed on the use and critical value of these tools for successful course project completion.
The library's instructional efforts are aligned with the Library information literacy plan, which aims to meet AU's programmatic and department/school-focused learning objectives. The integration of information literacy teaching and learning is a fundamental element of AU's educational offerings, as required by AU's accrediting body, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
American University Library's Division of Research, Teaching & Learning has implemented a three-tiered information literacy plan that aims to take a comprehensive approach to developing the information literacy skills of students over the course of their college careers. Features of the program are:
The tutorial combined with course-integrated instruction in the university's College Writing Program provides a basic level of research and information literacy instruction to incoming students:
This initiative is under expansion, and it is being introduced in courses required for undergraduate majors or graduate programs in each school or college.
This helps students within various disciplines to support degree completion and lifelong learning.
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(202) 885-3238
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research@american.edu