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Information Literacy

Companion documents to ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

Companion documents to ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

Education

Addresses three roles that information literacy plays in teacher education:

  • supporting teacher education students' classroom work in their teacher education program

  • preparing teachers for research skills needed in their career

  • preparing teachers to support the information needs and practices of their students

Music

includes a music-centered description as well as a list of knowledge practices, dispositions, and sample learning outcomes for each frame of the ACRL Information Literacy framework

Sociology 

describes connections between the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy and the Sociological Literacy Framework (SLF)

Women & Gender Studies

incorporates Women & Gender Studies threshold concepts into the Information Literacy (IL) Framework and provides an intersectional feminist context for each frame

Writing and Literature

concepts for improving information literacy for novice and expert learners of writing and literature

tools to help create learning objectives for information literacy instruction in these same areas

ways to align teaching practices with the ACRL Framework.

Accreditation

Higher Learning Commission (HLC)

Providing Evidence for the Criteria for Accreditation (pdf)

2.E. Knowledge Acquisition, Discovery and Application

Training programs on plagiarism, citations, online research and use of library resources, artificial intelligence and related technology