Information Literacy is one of eight undergraduate student learning goals at Michigan Tech. To guide and assess the development of students’ information literacy skills here at Michigan Tech, a ...

Academic librarians were quick to react to the threat posed by Internet competition. In 1989, half a dozen years before the first official release of Netscape, they recognized the explosion in ...

Along with the smell of old books and the shelves of trendy novels at the South Brunswick High School library are guides for accurately deciphering the digital world. Poster after poster with “Smart ...

We’re developing a seven-week course that we proposed after a history professor urged the library to teach a course on fake news that everyone should have to take. We’re not using the fraught phrase ...

Information Literacy prepares students to be critical and effective information seekers and users, both in general and in their disciplines. Students come to Hope College well-accustomed to the ...

Anyone who has a tween or teen in their life—or has come across one of them in the wild—can attest that middle and high school students love their mobile devices. Forty-six percent of U.S. teens say ...

At institutions like Bryn Mawr College, libraries are emerging as AI sandboxes where students and faculty experiment with the ...

Information literacy in professional contexts encompasses the acquisition and application of skills essential for identifying, retrieving, evaluating and effectively utilising information within ...

In January 2016, the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which states in its introduction that it "grows out of a ...

Librarians in academic settings are often focused on outreach to disciplinary instructors. The dream many of us have is for information literacy instruction to be organically embedded into all ...

“The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.”—Vartan Gregorian, president, Carnegie Corporation of New York ...