The Barbara J. Fried Center Library at the new Stafford County location will be open
for equipment returns only from Dec 2nd-5th, Dec 9th-12th, and Dec 16th-19th.
Library Instruction at Germanna
Librarians at Germanna teach library instruction sessions intended to support the successful completion of course assignments and develop students' information literacy skill set. Our sessions support the "Critical Thinking" general education competency.
Library faculty assist teaching faculty in developing a college-level information literacy foundation for students in freshman composition courses.
Library instruction also supports information literacy skill development in any general education or program-level course with a research component.
All library instruction sessions are interactive and require student participation. Library instruction is not lecture-based.
Learning Outcomes for Library Instruction
In a 30-50 minute class session, librarians focus on 1-2 of the following learning outcomes:
Outcome One: Students will be able to describe the underlying characteristics of scholarly sources, such as scholarly articles, in order to identify scholarly sources. (Source Types - Scholarly Sources)
Outcome Two: Students will be able to apply a set of evaluative criteria to an outside source in order to gauge its credibility/reliability. (Evaluating Information)
Outcome Three: Students will be able to construct effective and efficient search strategies in library databases in order to retrieve articles relevant to a specific topic/assignment. (Library Databases - Search Strategies)
Outcome Four: Students will be able to construct effective and efficient search strategies in the library catalog in order to retrieve books relevant to a specific topic/assignment. (Library Catalog - Search Strategies)
Outcome Five: Students will be able to distinguish between reference sources and other types of information in order to integrate reference sources into the research process. (Source Types - Reference Sources)
