CSCU Information Literacy Toolkit

This toolkit was developed by -- and for -- librarians across the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system to support academic librarians in their instructional role by helping save time, eliminating duplicated effort, and developing instructional skills. This toolkit is a place to share information literacy instruction-related resources such as instructional videos and tutorials; teaching and assessment tools; lesson plans; outreach and promotion ideas; and more. Original submissions, as well as materials created outside the system, may be contributed using this online form. Guidelines for submission are found below.

You may search the toolkit by skill set, resource type, or ACRL Frame.    

The toolkit is managed by members of the CSCU Library Consortium’s Information Literacy Expert Team. If you have questions or concerns, please let us know here.

Licensing and Attribution 

By submitting materials to the toolkit, you agree to only (1) share resources and materials to which you have the rights and/or permissions to share and (2) assign licenses to resources and materials for which you have the rights and/or permissions to assign. 

In the interest of respecting the authorship of any works shared and the associated protections of those works, we must require proper citation/attribution of any included works to grant proper acknowledgement and treatment of license protections. 

Here are basic guidelines for submission of documents: 

• Activities and Lesson Plans: Includes intended audience, clear and measurable learning objectives, activity details, time needed, and method for assessing. 
• Assessment Tool (ex: Pre-, Post-, One Minute Papers, Graded Assignments): Includes a rubric for assessment, if applicable. 
• Discussion Board Prompts: Includes guidelines for responses. (e.g., 3-4 lines, citation) 
• Handouts and other Instructional Materials: Include documents in an accessible format. 
• LibGuide Design: Designed using best practice principles for LibGuide creation, accessibility, and universal design for learning. 
• Marketing and Promotion: Ideally, samples will be created using software that is freely-available. Submission should include a statement of purpose and an intended audience. If software is not free, please share a link to subscription information. 
• Presentations: Designed using best practice principles for creating presentations (e.g., not text-heavy, minimal use of animations). 
• Software Use: Software is freely-available. If software is not free, please share a link to subscription information. 
• Tutorials and Videos: Provided in an easily-accessible format with closed captioning and applying best practices for creating tutorials and videos. 

Disclaimer 

The information contained herein is provided as a public service with the understanding that Connecticut State Colleges & Universities makes no warranties, either expressed or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or suitability of the information. Nor does Connecticut State Colleges and Universities warrant that the use of this information is free of any claims of copyright infringement. 

Connecticut State Colleges & Universities web pages do not endorse any commercial providers or their products.

Accessibility

It is the policy of CSCU to make information technology resources and services accessible to all CSCU students, faculty, staff and the general public, regardless of disability. While this site has been designed for full accessibility, external content embedded by individual authors (e.g., YouTube videos, etc.) may not be fully accessible. Please contact us for an accommodation here.

Licensing

This toolkit is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International License. The individual items included are subject to their respective license provisions. The Springshare software is all rights reserved.