Information literacy (alongside it's fellow core competency, critical thinking and reasoning) needs to be infused throughout the curricula of each program. This means it is not the responsibility of any one course or instructor to teach this competency, but the responsibility of all within each department to help in that effort. Despite some great steps forward in curricular design, mapping, and assessment at the program level at the university, however, this can sometimes mean student information literacy skills development is not embedded as much as it could be at the course design level. As a result, some students may slip through the cracks of this required competency (resulting in anything from poorly researched and cited papers, dropping out, or being unprepared for the needs of the workplace if they graduate).
But good news! The library can help you (for all questions or ideas: email librarian@sunyempire.edu) in the struggle to improve the information literacy and metacognitive development of your students (and potentially help in academic achievement, retention, and graduation levels) in a variety of ways, depending on your needs:
The library also offers a series of video recording and text workshops for students. These learning opportunities allow students to gain practice and confidence in key skills such as terminology development and search strategies, finding and working with scholarly articles, why and how to cite sources in APA format. After-workshop assessments are available as well in the form of auto-graded quizzes. The library can work with you embed a quiz directly into a course (so it gets put into the grade book), or students can send their Certificate of Completion to instructors who assign a workshop as course assignment or extra credit, or just as a self-improvement suggestion. More details in the links below.