Sharon A. Weiner, Professor and W. Wayne Booker Chair in Information Literacy at Purdue University writes for Educause Quarterly about Information Literacy: A Neglected Core Competency. In her article she discusses the recent report from the researchers at the Information School at the University of Washington titled Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age, and offers these takeaways:
• College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter their question.
• Information literacy is essential for lifelong learning and empowers individuals and societies.
• Our educational system should expose students to information literacy from elementary school through postsecondary education so that it is a habit of mind they can call upon throughout their lives.
• Collaborative efforts between faculty, librarians, technology professionals, and others can develop students who graduate with information literacy competency.
- Forest Woody Horton, Jr., (2008). "Understanding Information Literacy: A Primer," UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization), 2008. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001570/157020E.pdf
- "The Information Behavior of the Researcher of the Future," A CIBER Briefing Paper, January 11, 2008. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/downloads/ggexecutive.pdf
- Irvin R. Katz, "ETS Research Finds College Students Fall Short in Demonstrating ICT Literacy: National Policy Council to Create National Standards," College & Research Libraries News, vol. 68, no. 1 (January 2007), pp. 35–37. http://crln.acrl.org/content/68/1/35.full.pdf+html
- Anne Marie Perrault, "American Competitiveness in the Internet Age: Report," 2006 Information Literacy Summit, Washington, DC, October 16, 2006. http://www.infolit.org/
- Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, "Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age," Project Information Literacy Progress Report, Information School, University of Washington, December 1, 2009. http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2009_Year1Report_12_2009.pdf
- National Leadership Council for Liberal Education and America’s Promise, "College Learning for the New Global Century," Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2007. http://www.aacu.org/leap/documents/GlobalCentury_final.pdf
- See the CIC’s annual report for 2008–2009, "Creative Leadership for Challenging Times." http://www.cic.org/ABOUT/annualreport/annualreport0809.pdf
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