Best Practices for Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses

Instruction librarians are encouraged to submit book chapter proposals for the forthcoming monograph, “Best Practices for Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses.” As the title suggests, we are soliciting proposals from librarians who have developed and implemented innovative and effective methods for teaching credit-bearing information literacy courses. We are particularly interested in the use of educational technologies, including smart classrooms and Internet communication tools. Other items of interest for this volume are: assessment; course design; lesson planning; history of the course in higher education; integration of the course into disciplinary and/or institutional curricula, and instructional methods.

The intended publisher for this book is Neal-Schuman, and the target date for publication is fall of 2010. Interested authors should submit a 1-2 page proposal as an email attachment to me at: cvh2@buffalo.edu. The proposal should include: author’s name, full contact information, institutional affiliation, and list of professional publications; working title for proposed book chapter, and abstract for proposed book chapter (maximum of 200 words).
Proposals are due by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, May 29, 2009.

Please feel free to contact:
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Christopher Hollister
Information Literacy Librarian
Oscar A. Silverman Undergraduate Library
112 Capen Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: (716) 645-1323
Fax: (716) 645-3067
E-Mail: cvh2@buffalo.edu