Information Literacy Guide: Prepare Your Students
A guide to support faculty in incorporating General Education Learning Goal #4 into the curriculum.
Preparing Students for the World of Information
- Transparency in Teaching & LearningProject Information Literacy interview with Mary-Ann Winkelmes
- Its the Information Age, So Where's the Information?: Why Our Students Can't Find It and What We Can Do To Help.Article by an assistant professor in the Dept. of Composition at the U. of Minnesota--available in Academic Search Premier
- What Students Don't Know"A two-year anthropological study of student research habits shows that students are in dire need of help from librarians, but are loath to ask for it."
- The Fourth “R”: Reading, wRiting, aRithmatic, and Research SkillsWhite paper by Gail M. Staines, Assistant Vice President, University Libraries, Saint Louis University--her thesis is that "Research skills are just as important as knowing how to read, write, and do math"
- Developing Research & Communication Skills: Guidelines for Information Literacy in the CurriculumFrom Middle States Commission on Higher Education--Appendix 1 is a Criteria for Information Literacy Competency rubric
- Beyond Technical Competence: Literacy in Information and Communication Technology"There is a growing consensus that. . . today’s college students might not have the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy skills . . . necessary to navigate and make good use of the overabundance of information available today."
Information Literacy Assessment
- Integrating Information Literacy as a Habit of Learning: Assessing the Impact of a Golden Thread of IL in the CurriculumIncludes discussion of the use of a "reflective learning log" (or research log) to assess Information Literacy skills.
Threshold Concepts in Information Literacy
Organizations
- Information Literacy ResourcesFrom the Association of College & Research Libraries
- Resource DirectoryFrom the National Forum on Information Literacy
Project Information Literacy
- Project Information Literacy"A national study about early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age"--based in University of Washington's iSchool
- Project Information Literacy Publicationsresearch reports, articles, editorials; in the news; smart talks; podcasts & webcasts
- Truth Be Told: How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital AgeBy Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg of Project Information Literacy, U. of Washington
- The Necessity of Asking the Right Question"With Dan (Rothstein)(Right Question Institute), we discussed the importance of formulating questions, the challenges with teachers trying to incorporate a question-asking strategy into their classrooms, and the lifelong need for citizens in a democracy to know how to ask the “right questions.”
Information Problems in the Workplace
What Employers & Employees Say
Note employers' expectations for research & critical thinking skills:
- What Information Competencies Matter in Today's Workplace?A study from Project Information Literacy
- It Takes More Than a Major: Employer Priorities for College Learning and Student SuccessNote employers' expectations for research & critical thinking skills--from the Association for American Colleges & Universities
- Information Literacy in the WorkplaceSeveral articles from Education Libraries
Information Literacy & Retention
- Information Research Fluency: Strengthening Student Success & RetentionFrom librarians at Johns Hopkins U.
Videos
- Library Research (video)"The film Research Skills features interviews of six university professors discussing their research skills expectations of first-year university students. The interviews confirm the results of ongoing studies and reports on information literacy and the significant gap between high school and first-year university student preparedness."
For Students
- Transitioning to College (Kent State U.)"This guide . . . (includes) general information about college and how college differs from high school . . . The focus of this guide is on college libraries as an academic support service, college level research expectations, and the research process."