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 ...

Business Information Literacy Education is a dynamic field that seeks to equip students, professionals and academics with the competencies to effectively identify, locate, evaluate and utilise ...

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 ...

When state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters declared last month he is seeking to change what he called Oklahoma’s “woke” information literacy standards, more than a few people wondered what exactly ...

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 ...

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

Just in case you’re in a rush, here’s a tl;dr money quote from an important new study of whether recent college graduates feel prepared to use information: A large majority . . . believed they had ...

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 ...

Ideas about information literacy have always adapted to changes in the information environment. The birth of the web made it necessary for librarians to shift more towards teaching search strategies ...

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 ...

“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 ...