Going beyond the source: A revised curriculum for source evaluation

Abstract

The DePaul University Library has a longstanding relationship with the First-Year Writing Program to provide information literacy instruction to students in Writing, Rhetoric & Discourse (WRD) 104, a required course for all DePaul University undergraduates. Partnering in these courses is the foundation of the library’s information literacy program: we provide instruction to every section of WRD 104 to introduce these concepts to as many first-year students as possible. We have a standardized curriculum for the WRD 104 library instruction session. The curriculum is developed by the Instruction Working Group (IWG), a committee chaired by the instructional services librarian and made up of three or four additional instruction librarians who serve two-year terms.