At UNI, our latest Information Literacy Program includes a renewed focus on credit teaching, allowing librarians more time to refine their individual pedagogies and engage students in deeper critical thought. The presenters will each showcase a specific assignment from one of their credit courses that encourages critical thinking: a discussion that engages with equity, power, and ethics in knowledge creation and access, and AI Labs that encourage critical understanding of artificial intelligence.
In teaching a first-year seminar on banned books and censorship, I found that controversy and disagreement can be productive starting points for teaching information literacy. By pairing current events with structured dialogue and research-based assignments, students learned to evaluate claims, consider power dynamics, and examine how knowledge is shaped. I’ll share what worked, what didn’t, and practical strategies for guiding students through charged topics without shutting conversation down.
This presentation will give an in-depth look at the shelf reorganization project of the Archives of Iowa Broadcasting at Wartburg College. Utilizing manpower, student workers, and Excel, the AIB created and implemented solutions to their decades long problem of vault organization for accessibility and preservation.
