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Library and Information Science

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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2013

Education

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Developing A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Agenda, Patricia A. Iannuzzi Sep 2013

Developing A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Agenda, Patricia A. Iannuzzi

Library Faculty Presentations

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Info Lit 2.0 Or Deja Vu?, Patricia A. Iannuzzi Jan 2013

Info Lit 2.0 Or Deja Vu?, Patricia A. Iannuzzi

Library Faculty Publications

In 1999, ACRL convened a national task force to draft Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. ACRL has recently launched a revision to those standards. The original standards were influential because they helped advance a national need in higher education at the time: a shift to outcomes based learning. Thirteen years later, information literacy stands alongside oral and written communication, critical thinking and ethical reasoning as learning outcomes broadly acknowledged as needing to be integrated, with disciplinary content, into the curriculum. This author believes that, in contrast to the first process, the current recommendations for revision are focused on …