Learning to Think Outside the Bachs: Reimagining Information Literacy with Archival Materials for Undergraduate Students at the Baldwin Wallace University Riemenschneider Bach Institute

Abstract

Despite the extensive collection of archival music materials the Riemenschneider Bach Institute offers freely for Baldwin Wallace Conservatory students to use, very few of those students regularly engage with the RBI’s collections. In addition, the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory currently has no formal information literacy curriculum established for music students, which leaves them without essential information discovery tools and skills upon graduation. This poster will present a new course-integrated information literacy framework developed for the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory. The framework incorporates the Riemenschneider Bach Institute’s archival materials to ensure that students are not only able to take full advantage of the unique items in the Bach Institute’s collections, but are also able to engage with information and archival materials more effectively upon graduation.