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 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 ...

AMARC brings together around 1,500 community radio stations in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2025, it implemented a UNESCO-supported project to enhance the ability of broadcasters from 14 ...

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 ...

We’re developing a seven-week course that we proposed after a history professor urged the library to teach a course on fake news that everyone should have to take. We’re not using the fraught phrase ...

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 ...

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 ...

In many ways, media literacy needs to go hand-in-hand with other skills and information that is being taught to students. California became the latest state in the country to require media literacy ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...