In January 2016, the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which states in its introduction that it "grows out of a ...

The ACRL Information Literacy Framework Review and Revision Task Force is pleased to announce that our first draft of the revised Framework is ready for feedback from the community. ACRL Framework for ...

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 ...

“How could this happen?!” “Who do you think Q is?” Those were two of the first questions students asked when a new class that I was teaching, CYB100 Infowars, began on Jan. 25, 2021. Perhaps you are ...

Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of blog posts in which teaching award winners will share their experiences, philosophies, and techniques. Dr. Johanna Luthman is a professor of history ...

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 ...

Librarians in academic settings are often focused on outreach to disciplinary instructors. The dream many of us have is for information literacy instruction to be organically embedded into all ...

Interest in teaching digital and information literacy at colleges seems to have spiked since the political rise of Donald Trump, according to a new survey. The survey, of more than 900 college ...

In our current information environment, artificially intelligent, algorithm-driven technologies mediate essentially all information and communication, and they demonstrably influence our ...

Imagine sending a teenage driver onto a highway in an unfamiliar area, where road signs are in a foreign language, lanes change direction without warning, fog and rain obscure visibility, the car has ...

“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 ...

When David Oxtoby said in a 2011 speech that “facts matter,” the president of Pomona College could not have known that “post-truth” would be the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2016. Teaching ...