Standish Library's Instruction Program expands information literacy skills required to navigate our complex information environment, empowering students to engage critically as both consumers and creators of information. In collaboration with teaching faculty across campus, librarians develop hands-on classes and asynchronous learning objects to promote Siena's culture of lifelong learners who will build a more just, peaceful and humane world.
To schedule library instruction sessions for your courses, please fill out the Instruction Request form.
Please contact Freya at fgibbon@siena.edu to discuss alternative information literacy learning materials to support your classes.
Information literacy refers to the ability to find information for personal and scholarly work, evaluate information from traditional and AI sources for authority and bias, and integrate information ethically using citation standards of a discipline.
Or, as the Association of College Research Libraries puts it, 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" (ACRL 2017).
Siena's instruction program is mapped to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which identifies six core concepts for information literacy and addresses the Information Literacy goals outlined in Siena's 2022-2027 strategic plan.
All librarians at Standish Library teach classes, so you will work with someone with subject expertise in your discipline. Reach out at any time during your planning process, but please note that it takes time to develop a new class. Please give us at least two weeks lead time on new instruction requests. Librarians can assist with creating assignments and assessments or share digital resources to embed on your Canvas page. Librarians can also design and lead pop-in workshops to help your students accomplish parts of a research project. We can support:
See the Instruction Menu for examples of workshops we can lead. See Credo Info Lit Core for access to our database of instructional modules.
