"Hanging Together": Collaboration Between Information Literacy and Writing Programs Based on the...

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Presenters: Donna Witek (formerly Mazziotti) and Teresa Grettano ACRL 2011, Philadelphia, PA, March 30-April 2, 2011 Original Prezi: http://tinyurl.com/preziwitekgrettanoacrl2011 Conference paper: http://tinyurl.com/paperwitekgrettanoacrl2011 Abstract [excerpt]: Most librarians can identify ways in which Information Literacy Programs and First-Year Writing Programs complement one another on the college/university campus. But what is the framework in which this complementary relationship might flourish into one of concrete collaboration and partnership? This is the question the presenters of this paper, which include a university librarian who is a member of the information literacy instruction team in her department, and an English professor whose area of expertise is composition and rhetoric, will answer. In this paper they will closely examine the relationship between the standards/outcomes in their respective fields: the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (2000) and the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition (2000). The presenters will identify areas of overlap in the work that information literacy and writing programs are doing, as well as ways in which the unique goals of these programs complement one another. The aims of this examination are: to develop a framework in which collaboration between information literacy and writing programs can occur; to identify areas in which our respective programmatic goals align; and to recommend concrete ways in which information literacy and writing programs can and should collaborate, develop partnerships, and use the evidence found right in our respective standards and outcomes to leverage support for collaboration on the programmatic level. The presenters themselves represent a model for how such an intradepartmental collaborative partnership might look, particularly in a situation in which collaboration between individual instructors is likely to precede collaboration between entire programs. In the paper the presenters will share with attendees the context of their partnership, i.e. the collaborative development of a course on social media and rhetoric, which will incorporate information literacy into its course goals. In this respect, the presenters can speak to collaboration between information literacy and writing programs from a place of well-researched experience. The work the presenters are doing with the ACRL Standards and the WPA Outcomes has concrete application in the collaborative design of a course which will serve the goals of both of their respective programs, and this real-world application of the theoretical framework to be presented in this paper is an appealing feature of this conference session.