Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher
Education
"Sociological Information Literacy is an understanding of how information and scholarship are created, published, disseminated, and used by individuals and organizations. It is informed by sociological thinking and scholarship, though SIL is not limited to sociological knowledge itself. Instead, it is an application of what Ferguson and Carbonaro (2016) call “sociological eye,” a distinctive disciplinary perspective that—like the “sociological imagination” or “sociological perspective”—encourages students “to see sociology in everyday life” (p. 143) with a wide variety of information. Students armed with SIL are better equipped to participate in informed public debates and lifelong learning. On the personal level, students can use this set of integrated abilities–searching, evaluating, synthesizing information and scholarship, and considering the role of the social world in the production of knowledge–in their learning, research, and employment regardless of their field."
Community of Online Research Assignments: Sociology (Loyola Marymount University Library)
"CORA stands for Community of Online Research Assignments. It is an open educational resource (OER) for librarians, faculty, and other educators. It is intended to be a collaborative space for adapting and experimenting with research assignments and sharing the success or lessons learned so that others may benefit. The site contains multiple, reliable and reproducible research assignments that do not live as isolated entities, but are enhanced by user feedback in order to build a rich corpus of best practices."
ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Sandbox
"ACRL is the source that the higher education community looks to for Standards, Guidelines, and Frameworks on academic libraries. ACRL develops Standards, Guidelines, and Frameworks to help libraries, academic institutions, and accrediting agencies understand the components of an excellent library."
"This contribution offers a review and synthesis of the current state of learning outcomes and assessment within the discipline of sociology. Based on their review of the literature and discussions with faculty experts, the authors construct a Sociological Literacy Framework...."
