State schools Superintendent Ryan Walters' push to change Oklahoma's information literacy standards has spotlighted a lesser-known measurement of learning. When state schools Superintendent Ryan ...
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 ...
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 ...
Information literacy is increasingly recognised as a fundamental skill for higher education, equipping students with the ability to effectively identify, locate, evaluate and utilise information. In ...
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 ...
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 ...
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the 2026 winners of the annual I Love My Librarian ...
In a world where misinformation spreads faster than understanding, building climate and information literacy is how we begin ...
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 ...
Just over a quarter of a century ago, David Bartholomae published an influential essay, “Inventing the University,” in which he explored the difficulty new college students have as writers, trying to ...
“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 ...