This session will highlight a teaching collaboration between course instructors and an embedded library liaison team within a year-long, interdisciplinary freshman course titled Global Islam, wherein critical information literacy themes were imbued throughout regular, content-based course lectures. By exploring some particular synergies between information literacy concepts and the study of Islam and Muslims, the presenters will consider how discussions of power and information can be scaffolded in interdisciplinary classes through collaborative teaching and curriculum development. Advocating for a more inclusive view of 'expertise', this session will also consider opportunities for expanded participation of library workers in subject-based instruction.
Participants will: 1. Explore opportunities for scaffolding and streamlining critical information literacy concepts into regular, content-based course instruction by building on the existing information behaviors and worlds of learners. 2. Consider the practical considerations associated with collaborative teaching between instructors and library workers, and identify strategies for engendering faculty and administrative support for more integrated, in-depth information literacy instruction, beyond one shots and demonstrations.
