Information Literacy Skills Development (ILSD)

The Library's Information Literacy Skills Development program adheres to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

The Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2015), identifies six core concepts of information literacy.

1. Authority Is Constructed and Contextual
2. Information Creation as a Process
3. Information Has Value
4. Research as Inquiry
5. Scholarship as Conversation
6. Searching as Strategic Exploration

Information literacy forms the basis for lifelong learning. It is common to all disciplines, to all learning environments, and to all levels of education. It enables learners to master content and extend their investigations, become more self-directed, and assume greater control over their own learning.

Information literacy skills development instruction learning objectives are appropriately developed using conceptual and/or process approaches to teach bibliographic resources and/or information seeking problem-solving in collaboration with faculty. The Model Statement of Objectives for Academic Bibliographic Instruction provides a framework for developing learning goals.

For more information, see the full documents from ACRL below.

Your Instructional and Research Librarian participates in ongoing professional development and is a member of several professional associations.  Each association offers additional guidelines and strategies for integrating information literacies into library programs and instruction.