The University Libraries Instruction Program supports the educational mission of Texas A&M University and the missions of the University Libraries for discovery and learning through instructional initiatives that develop skills for information discovery, scholarship, and academic excellence. Working collaboratively with faculty, students, and the community, the Libraries’ Instruction Program promotes critical thinking and challenges learners to consider their role as consumers, producers, and creators of information. Learners will be empowered to effectively identify, find, evaluate, create and ethically use information in their academic pursuits, in their future careers, and as life-long learners in an information-rich society.
After participating in library instruction, students will be able to:
Develop effective strategies for collecting, organizing, managing, or preserving information.
Account for audience, genre, format and norms when creating information.
Critically evaluate information in light of its complexities of authority and production, and its relationship to existing knowledge.
Formulate effective strategies to find relevant resources, while engaging in reflective and recursive searching practices.
Articulate their individual and collaborative roles as information creators, acknowledging their own motivations, biases, rights, and responsibilities.
Respect information creation as intellectual labor, through ethical use and attribution.
Identify how the production of and access to information are mediated by social, cultural, political, economic, and disciplinary factors.
Intentionally select information sources, methods, or tools in order to appropriately meet a need, answer a question, or solve a problem.
Develop questions for investigation, taking into account existing knowledge or information gaps.
Identify library and information services, facilities, and collections, articulating how they are organized both digitally and physically.
