Digital Information Literacy Toolkit

Building a Community of Practice for Digital Information Literacy

In Summer 2024, 17 Faculty from 15 departments attended an all day workshop led by UND subject librarians to discuss ways to support deep engagement and student agency in the 21st century information environment. Our thanks to the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies & Student Success for faculty stipends to support workshop attendance and subsequent course validation for the Essential Studies Special Emphasis in Digital Information Literacy/Information Literacy Learning Goal.

Below are the workshop materials used for the various topics - note many of these materials are also located in other sections of this guide as well.

Activity 1: Electronic Resources Policy

This role playing activity helps faculty to address a knowledge practice from the ACRL Framework Frame: Information Creation as a Process

• Learners who are developing their information literate abilities recognize that information may be perceived differently based on the format in which it is packaged

The documents below provide a scenario and the possible resources.

Contextualizing the ACRL Framework and Metaliteracies

Learn about the foundational basis of the Digital Information Literacy Special Emphasis:

• Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy
• Metaliteracies that center student as creator

Note: see the actual documents below:

Potential of Digital Tools - Sharing Highlights

• Scite_ AI research assistant (library subscription)
• Research Rabbit AI research assistant (free)
• Perplexity AI Search Engine (free version)
• Voyant Digital Text Analyzer (free)
• Zotero document organizer (free with library subscription for unlimited storage)
• OpenRefine Data Analyzer (free)

CFL AI Resources Research Guide (includes links to these and additional AI researcher tools)

Moving Forward on Digital Information Literacy Validation