Best Practices / IL plan

DEFINITION: STUDENT ABILITIES

Know when they need information

Access needed information

Evaluate found information

Synthesize and analyze found information

Use information ethically to achieve academic, career, or personal goals.

VISION

Librarians prepare students to successfully navigate the world of research and information at college and beyond

Students become information literate through embedded information literacy instruction throughout the curriculum.

TO ACHIEVE VISION

Embed information literacy throughout the curriculum

o Outcome-based
o Developmentally appropriate
o Disciplinarily relevant
o Assessable
o “setting neutral”: online or face-to-face

Provide information literacy instruction

Provide in-person consultation with discipline faculty

Provide tools (available online) that discipline faculty can use to integrate information literacy into their classes