A Campus-Wide Role for an Information Literacy Committee

The current Middle States Commission on Higher Education accreditation guidelines suggest an enhanced role for faculty members in information literacy instruction. A campus-wide information literacy committee can play a key role in accomplishing this. Such a committee at the University at Albany, SU...

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Published in:Resource sharing & information networks 2005-04, Vol.17 (1-2), p.111-121
Main Authors: Jacobson, Trudi E., Germain, Carol Anne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accreditation (Institutions)
Advisory Committees
Collaboration
colleges and universities
Cooperation
Curriculum Implementation
Design Requirements
General Education
Guidelines
Information Literacy
Information literacy programs
Librarian Teacher Cooperation
librarian-faculty collaboration
Library Instruction
New York
partnerships
Partnerships in Education
Planning Commissions
Role of Education
State University of New York at Albany
University libraries
USA
User training
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Summary:The current Middle States Commission on Higher Education accreditation guidelines suggest an enhanced role for faculty members in information literacy instruction. A campus-wide information literacy committee can play a key role in accomplishing this. Such a committee at the University at Albany, SUNY, has been critical in addressing this recommendation, and in advancing a general education information literacy requirement. The committee serves as a source of information and as an organizer of workshops for faculty members who would like to tailor their courses to fit the general education information literacy requirement. It also serves as a syllabus review body and advocates for collaboration with librarians in this distributed model of information literacy instruction.
ISSN:0737-7797
1541-1125
DOI:10.1300/J121v17n01_09