Instruction Toolkit for
Textiles and Engineering Services
Information for Librarians : About our Program
An overview of the goals and objectives of this instruction program can be found at the
about Curriculum Integrated Instruction page.
One of the philosophies driving our program is that instruction and information
literacy must take place within the student's world. Through partnerships with academic
departments and faculty at North Carolina State University librarians appear in guest
lecture sessions in student classes. Sessions by librarians are coordinated in a systematic
manner that aim to progressively build competencies through the student's time at the
University. Lectures and assignments by librarians are carefully designed to match the
information skills of students in their specific year of study.
Part of our effort to move our instruction program into our patron's world involves
helping them meet their strategic goals and objectives. Consequently, our own
instruction objectives are aligned with the accreditation requirements for the departments
with whom we partner. Librarians involved in the Curriculum Integrated Instruction
program regularly monitor the outcome requirements for accreditation organizations such
as ABET. In playing a role in the larger educational mission of NCSU, we make sure that
librarians take part in helping students develop the information skills they will need to
be successful.
Students must have a basic understanding of how information is
identified and defined by experts, structured, organized, and accessed, in both the
print and digital environments. Mastery of communication arts and information skills
is central to engaging in the productive life of academic and professional
communities.
From the Rationale for NCSU Undergraduate Requirements for
Writing,
Speaking and Information Literacy.
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