Welcome! This guide is a place for you to go to learn more about how you can incorporate the library's literacy initiatives (including information literacy, data literacy, and media & maker literacies) into your courses. We are here to support you and your students. Please use the tabs on the left or the links below to learn about:
- The Baylor Libraries literacy initiatives
- information, data, media and maker
- The Association of College & Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy
- How you can integrate these literacies into your courses with support from the libraries
- How to schedule a live session (in-person or online)
- Additional resources
Literacies and the Role of the Libraries
"Literacy" is truly a constellation of many "literacies," which cross the bounds of digital and non-digital, material and immaterial. Fundamentally, literacy involves using the full range of tools to communicate all knowledge. As traditional stewards of knowledge and always incorporating new technologies, libraries have a clear role in promoting literacies to the university community.
Baylor Libraries' literacies initiative emphasizes a few specific literacies: Information, Data, Media, and Making. We provide support through our tiered information literacy instruction program, self-paced and online data literacy courses, and media lab and makerspace collaborations. We equip faculty and students with the skills they need to become creators, producers, and communicators of information and research in addition to those skills they use as consumers and evaluators.
Audience
This guide is meant to serve faculty and instructors who are interested in partnering with the libraries to incorporate library-supported literacies into their courses.
