Hello!
I'm a recent MLIS grad (Dec 2019) and the newly appointed medical librarian for Prairie View A&M's Undergraduate Medical Academy. Prior to starting the position (January 2020), they hadn't had anyone managing their library for two years, so as you can probably imagine, there's quite a lot to do now that I'm here.
One of the things I'm working on, and why I'm posting this today, is information literacy online module, as the UMA doesn't currently have any program, and the main campus only has a few one-shot sessions (which have been put on hold during the pandemic). That said, having only recently completed my degree, I'm trying to do as much research on library instruction as possible, recognizing that there's a lot I don't know.
Ideally, I'd like the module to start with an explanation of information and information literacy (and health literacy, as it's for the medical academy students), then work through the research process from start to finish explaining concepts along the way - so, starting from formulating a research question, developing a search strategy, boolean and mesh searching, etc, and finally ending with peer review, copyright, and publishing.
I'm currently in the process of scripting out what I want each lesson to say/teach. There's many concepts that, having never taught before, I have questions about the best ways to convey them to students. If you teach, or have taught instruction classes (particularly in the health sciences!) I'd love to get your thoughts on how I should go about creating such a module (if there's any online platforms that may be good for it?), and how you would recommend teaching information literacy skills to undergrads.
Feel free to reply here or email me!
Thanks in advance,
Tenley
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Tenley Sablatzky
Medical Librarian
Prairie View A & M University
She/Her/Hers
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