INFORMATION LITERACY

Information Literacy for Faculty and Administrators
Provides an introduction to the concept of information literacy and model information literacy programs.

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
These standards for information literacy have been endorsed by the American Association for Higher Education (October 1999) and the Council of Independent Colleges (February 2004).

Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline
The guideline attempts to articulate elements of exemplary information literacy programs for undergraduate students at four-year and two-year institutions.

Information Literacy Weblog
News and reports about information literacy from around the world.

Students Fall Short on 'Information Literacy,' Educational Testing Service's Study Finds
Article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, October 27, 2006.

Information Literacy and Student Engagement: What the National Survey of Student Engagement Reveals about Your Campus
Article from College & Research Libraries, November 2003.

Net Generation Students and Libraries
Chapter in Educating the Net Generation (Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE, 2005). This book is also available in the Musselman Library at LB 2395.7.E38 2005

Information Literacy as a Liberal Art
Article from Educom Review, March/April 1996.

International Colloquium on Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning
Report from the colloquium on information literacy held in Alexandria, Egypt, November 6-9, 2005.

Updated November 2007