Best Practices

This e-book has chapters dedicated to specific aspects of both the planning and delivery of information literacy classes. The individual chapters also mention in what situation a specific talking point should be used and what to watch out for when handling the situation.

Media literacy and information literacy are two separate academic fields, although they share similar goals. This article argues for the need to teach both information literacy and media literacy, while also explaining the differences of the two.

Data literacy is a concept gaining more and more traction with the increase of statistical and raw data available to the average researcher and consumer. This article has proposed core competencies and a method of including data literacy into information literacy instruction.

This article focuses on Millennials at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona to provide perspective on their research habits. The future of libraries is also explored.

After the ACRL revised its standards of information literacy for Science and Engineering/Technology in 2011, it recommended that they be revised. This article discusses which areas of information literacy in regard to science need to be revised.

A study was conducted at eight New Jersey institutions of higher education regarding the value faculty place on information literacy.

An embedded librarian project for online doctoral students reveals the need for information literacy for graduate students and for refreshing IL knowledge, since students who have not used a certain database for a few months will forget how to use it and how to distinguish peer reviewed journal articles from non-peer reviewed articles.

This article describes the transformation of a traditional classroom into an interactive one and how it helped transform the information literacy program on the Brigham Young University's campus.

This paper discusses the difference between techo-savvy and information-savvy students. It also discusses how information literacy needs to be made relevant to these students and fit with different learning styles.

The article describes through a self-assessment test called the Research Readiness Self-Assessment (RRSA), how well college-age people were able to find and evaluate electronic health information. The article describes the purpose, methods and results of the study.