Librarians’ sport of choice: Teaching information literacy through fantasy football

Abstract

Librarians' sport of choiceTeaching information literacy through fantasy football L ibrarians want students to effectively identify and evaluate information and make decisions based upon what they discover.These are just some of the skills that an information literate student success fully applies.These are the same skills that more than 19 million people use on a daily or weekly basis playing fantasy sports. 1 As the NFL football season comes to a close, millions of Americans, some as young as 12 years old, have spent the past few months connected to information literacy.They just don't know it.The challenge for librarians is to connect fantasy sports skills to information literacy and create building blocks for academic applications of the same concepts.One library, University of Dubuque, did just this by teaching fantasy football research to incoming student athletes.Through the lesson, students engaged in discussions of creditability, validity, timeliness, and search strategies to find and evaluate fantasy foot ball information.The assessment of these in struction sessions showed incoming students successfully identifying evaluation criteria and reporting positive changes in how they viewed research and libraries.

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