Exploring Strategies for Integrated Information Literacy: From "Academic Champions" to Institution-Wide Change
In this paper, the author critically reviews the strategies that have been adopted by librarians to secure academic support for curriculum-integrated information literacy (IL) instruction, and questions whether the popular approach of targeting individual academics offers a suitable foundation for t...
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Communications in Information Literacy
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| description | In this paper, the author critically reviews the strategies that have been adopted by librarians to secure academic support for curriculum-integrated information literacy (IL) instruction, and questions whether the popular approach of targeting individual academics offers a suitable foundation for the establishment of long-term IL programs. The paper suggests that librarians should instead align their IL objectives with the overall academic mission of their institutions and seek out the means to effect a more wide-ranging change in the academic culture, where IL is recognized as a core educational value. Several strategies are suggested by which this aim may be achieved. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2f485eed4fa6412893d6465dd3b99c3f2022-12-22T02:29:49ZengCommunications in Information LiteracyCommunications in Information Literacy1933-59542007-05-0111263810.15760/comminfolit.2007.1.1.5Exploring Strategies for Integrated Information Literacy: From "Academic Champions" to Institution-Wide ChangeClaire McGuinness0University College Dublin, IrelandIn this paper, the author critically reviews the strategies that have been adopted by librarians to secure academic support for curriculum-integrated information literacy (IL) instruction, and questions whether the popular approach of targeting individual academics offers a suitable foundation for the establishment of long-term IL programs. The paper suggests that librarians should instead align their IL objectives with the overall academic mission of their institutions and seek out the means to effect a more wide-ranging change in the academic culture, where IL is recognized as a core educational value. Several strategies are suggested by which this aim may be achieved.http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/22491Information literacy; Faculty-Library Collaboration; Implementation |
| spellingShingle | Claire McGuinness Exploring Strategies for Integrated Information Literacy: From "Academic Champions" to Institution-Wide Change Communications in Information Literacy Information literacy; Faculty-Library Collaboration; Implementation |
| title | Exploring Strategies for Integrated Information Literacy: From "Academic Champions" to Institution-Wide Change |
| title_full | Exploring Strategies for Integrated Information Literacy: From "Academic Champions" to Institution-Wide Change |
| title_fullStr | Exploring Strategies for Integrated Information Literacy: From "Academic Champions" to Institution-Wide Change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring Strategies for Integrated Information Literacy: From "Academic Champions" to Institution-Wide Change |
| title_short | Exploring Strategies for Integrated Information Literacy: From "Academic Champions" to Institution-Wide Change |
| title_sort | exploring strategies for integrated information literacy from academic champions to institution wide change |
| topic | Information literacy; Faculty-Library Collaboration; Implementation |
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