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Schedule an instruction session with us
Like you, we are committed to course-integrated, outcomes-based instruction, and assessment of student learning.  We can help your students become more information literate.  Instruction sessions can address:
  • appropriate use of resources for assignments
  • citation standards and plagiarism issues
  • effective search strategies in periodical databases or the catalog
  • better understanding of research assignments

Here's how

  • Call x3232, email refhelp@highline.edu, or visit us at the reference desk. 
  • Check to see what times are available through our class schedule .
  • Classes may be held in your classroom or at the Information Commons in the library.

Best practices

  • Advance notice and detailed information about your assignments and goals for the session helps us to provide the best possible instruction..
  • Instructional outcomes are often best achieved through a short series of information literacy sessions.  There are, however, other options for achieving more intensive integration.  We offer a one-credit research course (LIBR 105) which can be linked to any subject specific course.
  • Full description of Best Practices and Scheduling Guidelines


Our "Faculty Toolkit" includes sample assessment rubrics, web evaluation guides, information literacy rich assignments and courses produced by Highline faculty members, and more.
Student Game Showcase The Student Game Showcase features computer games created by Highline students in the Computer Science/Computer Information Systems program. The games and the showcase are examples of ways in which students at Highline are developing visual literacy skills in the process of building projects.
Easy to use online tutorials on effective database searching, identifying scholarly articles, web evaluation, and more.

Information Literacy News “MindMashup”: Call for Entries
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) announces the Second Annual Sparky Awards, a contest that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of information sharing and aims to broaden the discussion of access to scholarly research by inviting students to express their views creatively. The 2008 contest theme is [...] Source: Highline Community College Library » Information Literacy   Posted: April 30, 2008 at 3:27 pm

Living Libraries - a new take on learning
A new library allows readers to borrow people for a 30-minute chat.  Here is the experience of one man who offered himself as a human book…troubling the waters of prejudice with face to face conversation. Source: Highline Community College Library » Information Literacy   Posted: April 23, 2008 at 3:44 pm




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