ABSTRACT
Gettysburg College’s Musselman Library has an active and growing information literacy (IL) program based on faculty-librarian collaboration rather than institutional curriculum. While a few IL session sequences are taught within a specific course, the vast majority of instructional sessions are traditional “one-shots.” As formal instruction time with students is limited, instruction librarians take care to include active learning and other participatory pedagogies to improve learning and increase the likelihood that students will return to the library, reference desk, and library Web site. Incorporating personal response devices or “clickers” into IL sessions is another technique for engaging students during a very short window of opportunity.
