The teaching of research should help students develop and value a personal sense of inquiry and the skills and strategies to support such inquiry.  Research opportunities should help students to develop openness to a variety of truth claims and an awareness of the validity concerns that arise from them.  Research opportunities should also help students to broaden their perspectives on ways of knowing, as well as the nature of knowledge and their relationship to it.

The FYS program has a commitment to information literacy enrichment as articulated in  the following FYS learning objective:

• To carry out research for the purpose of supplying evidence and support for claims made in exposition and argument. (First Year Seminar: Self, Community, & the World)

Butler Librarians liaison with FYS faculty to provide introductory information literacy instruction and assist in research assignment/project design.

For more information on the FYS faculty/librarian collaboration, consult the following documents.

• What are the most critical skills for information literacy instruction?
• Librarian Assignments FYS Fall 14

and visit the Information Literacy Tool Box for Butler Faculty.