Information Literacy Personal Statement

Teaching information literacy skills is the most rewarding aspect of my work. As the Library Instruction Coordinator and Librarian for the Languages & Culture (team leader) and General Studies Writing (GSW)/First Year Experience (FYE) Instruction Teams at BGSU, I am passionate about creating nurturing and validating learning environments; making the learning process a two-way collaborative, active, and engaging experience; and developing students’ critical thinking skills. Whether I am teaching students how to find and evaluate sources, supporting the curricular and research needs of faculty, or articulating the value of academic libraries in student learning with stakeholders on campus, I try to follow these tenets in my day-to-day work at

( ) I also participate in campus engagement activities by partnering with the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) to provide library orientations for new faculty; and collaborating with library staff to create content for the library’s “Services for Students” and “Services for Faculty” webpages. I also created a LibGuide “Resources for Instruction Librarians” that provides re-usable resources such as templates, several outreach and teaching materials such as scripts, handouts, and presentation slides for librarians who want to promote and integrate information literacy instruction. Since 2013, I have a taught a total of XXX courses and reached XX

This project sparked and encouraged students to engage in scholarly conversations that involved critical and analytical thinking as well as linguistic and cultural pluralism. This experience prepared students for both engage in scholarship projects and in their thesis manuscripts as noted by a