Library Instruction West 2016

According to the International Center for Academic Integrity, academic honesty violations have been on the rise at undergraduate institutions. Is there a role for libraries to play in academic integrity education? In 2013, one college requested that the central consortial library design a plagiarism tutorial for use as a remedial tool for students who had committed academic integrity policy violations. In this presentation, we will discuss that library's experience in developing an interactive online tutorial and associated evaluative tool to teach strategies for being an ethical member of a community of scholars. Throughout the presentation, we will highlight successes and challenges of our implementation approach, as well as concrete strategies for other libraries who are considering adapting this Creative Commons-licensed tutorial or creating their own tool for addressing academic integrity. We will include time for open discussion of the library's role in academic integrity education.