Information Fluency in the Arts

The 2017 Workshop in Information Fluency will focus on The Arts: History, Theory, and Criticism and and will be held April 20–22, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is part of a series of workshops intended to help institutions move beyond information literacy in general education to information fluency in humanities majors. These workshops are made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This Workshop will guide teams in the creation of a comprehensive program to assist students in obtaining a better understanding of the availability, authority, and uses of relevant information resources in their upper-level courses in language and literature, including both print and online materials. The Workshop will provide guidance and time for each campus team to create a realistic and appropriate action plan that it will take back to campus. To this end, participants will learn about topics such as:

• Best practices in faculty-librarian collaboration in helping students acquire information fluency;
• The role of chief academic officers in promoting the teaching of information fluency across the campus;
• New, online, and traditional resources relevant to the study of English and American language and literature;
• Methods of evaluating the success of an information fluency program;
• Effective uses of physical space and budgets to promote information fluency; and
• Strategies for implementing change on campus.

There is no fee to participate and, thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, each participating institution will be reimbursed up to $3,000 to offset travel and hotel expenses for each team of four people.

CIC Documents are below.