The document discusses opportunities for collaboration to strengthen information literacy instruction. It proposes embedding information literacy instruction at least seven times throughout students' undergraduate degrees through interdisciplinary collaboration. It advocates for librarians to collaborate inwards by sharing lesson plans, outwards by partnering with others across the university, and upwards and downwards to align with strategic plans and academic missions. The goal is to make information literacy a core competency by innovating and collaborating in new ways.

1. Opportunity
Leveraging
collaborative efforts
for teaching &
learning excellence
Alan Carbery
@acarbery
KNOCKS

2. MY OWN
PROVOCATIVE
PROPOSITION…

3. Information literacy at the heart of the
students’ educational experience.

4. EVERY SINGLE STUDENT
throughout their undergraduate degree
receives information literacy instruction
AT LEAST 7 TIMES

5. Embedded and
scaffolded within the
interdisciplinary
curriculum

6. Information Literacy as a
COMPETENCY
UNIVERSITY

11. SPOILER ALERT!

12. SPOILER ALERT!
COLLABORATIVELY

13. Collaborate Upwards
& Downwards

14. The University’s
Strategic Plan/
Academic Mission

15. The time is
NOW

17. A connected
University

18. Collaborate Outwards

19. Librarian as
educator
course-design collaborator
assessment

20. Collaborate Inwards

22. Shared lesson plans,
shared design of our program

24. SIDE NOTE:
Librarian Faculty status - does it matter?

25. probably*

26. It starts within…

28. Collaborate as a
community

30. Are we reaching a new dawn where the term
information literacy is becoming redundant?

31. Digital Scholarship &
Information Literacy

32. Students as creators

33. Are we at risk of being
left behind?

34. New opportunities?

38. challenged our assumptions

39. Information literacy does not start
and end at the door of the library.

41. INNOVATE,
COLLABORATE

42. @acarbery
alan.carbery@ucc.ie