Questions or comments?
Please contact Laurie Sabol, Tisch Library instruction coordinator or Beth Rohloff, first year library instruction coordinator. More information about the program can be found here.
The Tisch Library Instruction Program
The Tisch Library Instruction Program is instrumental in helping the Tufts community become highly proficient researchers by using the library’s collections and services. We are committed to providing a life-long learning opportunity for students in order to allow them to become self directed and self sufficient.
We accomplish our goals through the following activities:
- Librarian led, course-specific instruction sessions tailored to assignments given by instructors
- Independent training sessions on database search skills
- Consultations with individual students, staff and faculty
- Incorporating evaluation skills into our instruction
- teaching transferable skills needed for independent study and life-long intellectual development
We integrate the university’s emphasis on learning in its vision statement in everything we do. "Learning: Knowledge is important but alone is not enough. Learning must be lifelong. We will teach our students how to obtain, evaluate, and use information. We will prepare them to use historical perspective and to be receptive to new ideas. Our students will be sensitive to ethical issues and able to confront them."
We aim to forge partnerships with faculty members, staff, and administrators to develop creative and effective instructional components that can be integrated into the curriculum.
Information literacy enhances the pursuit of knowledge by preparing students to think critically and use information for their academic, professional and personal lives. We embrace the Association of College and Research Library’s Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and that document’s definition of information literacy as "…a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information."
Thanks to Wartburg College, Florida international University and Boston College for allowing us to borrow text that was used to write this page.