Reframing Pinterest: Information Literacy for Interior Design Students

ABSTRACT

This article discusses providing information literacy to interior design students, specifically how over a few years, and several assignment iterations, we moved from a more traditional one-shot library instruction session to a creative Association of College and Research Libraries Framework-inspired assignment using Pinterest as the medium for the students' professionally relevant research project. The outcome of our instruction relied on flexible assignment planning, collaboration as faculty and librarians changed roles, and a focus on information literacy skills needed by professional designers.

KEYWORDS:

• ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education
• assignment design
• faculty-librarian collaboration
• information literacy
• interior design
• iterative design
• library instruction
• Pinterest
• professional disciplines