Information Literacy Partner of the Month

While Dr. Maykrantz has been an adjunct at SU for several years, this is her first semester as a full-time professor, and she has hit the ground running at full steam! For her HLTH classes this semester (“Health Behavior” and “Drug Education”), we worked together in tailoring the library instruction sessions to focus on the needed skills to be successful on the given assignments, as well as beyond the classroom. Students practiced their skills in identifying and evaluating empirical research in the community health field, then worked hard to find the same kind of research related to their various topics using library resources. As these are entry-level courses in the community health major, a number of students had never conducted this kind of research previously, and during these sessions, many of the students had those “light bulb moments,” where they grasped more fully how to identify and incorporate high quality research into their projects. I'm excited for the opportunity to work more with Dr. Maykrantz and her classes in semesters to come.