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QUALITY ENHANCEMENT PLAN - Developing U-Research: Links to Electronic Resources

Designed for those aiding in the development of U-Research as MC's Quality Enhancment Plan, this guide includes information on books, articles, statistical data, and web sites dealing with information literacy (IL) and related topics.

Web Resources

Academic Literacy:  A Statement of Competencies Expected of Students Entering California’s Public Colleges and Universities (2002)

College Students’ Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources:  A Report to the OCLC Membership (OCLC)

Developing Research & Communication Skills:  Guidelines for Information Literacy in the Curriculum – Middle States Commission on Higher Education (book with this title is on Reserve)

Evaluating Information Literacy/Fluency/Instructional Technology Projects

The Future of the University in the Digital Age  SUMMARY

General Education and Essential Skills

 

Greater Expectations:  A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College (AACU, 2002)   SUMMARY

The Horizon Report, 2010 edition - Trends in higher education and technology.

Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future

 

Information Literacy:  Advancing Opportunities for Learning in the Digital Age (Aspen Institute)

 

Information Literacy as a Catalyst for Educational Change:  A Background Paper   SUMMARY 

 

Information Literacy for Faculty and Administrators

Information Literacy and the Engaged Campus from AAHE Bulletin SUMMARY

Information-Seeking Behavior of College Students Using the Library to Do Research:  A Pilot Study (ERIC document ED100 306)  SUMMARY

Learning in a Digital Age:  Insights into the Issues – The Skills Students Need for Technological Fluency (Milken Family Foundation)

New Roles and Responsibilities for the University Library:  Advancing Student Learning Through Outcomes Assessment

Powerful Partnerships:  A Shared Responsibility for Learning (Joint Task Force on Student Learning, 1998)

Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research Universities  SUMMARY

Seven Faces of Information Literacy:  Toward Inviting Students into New Experiences

Trends and Emerging Practices in General Education (AACU, 2009) 

Understanding University Success (AAU and The Pew Charitable Trusts)

What Does Information Literacy Mean?:  Some Examples from Different Disciplines (University of Sheffield, 2008)

 

Online Articles

Best Practices in Information Literacy from portal:  Libraries and the Academy (Project Muse)

Campus Cultures Fostering Information Literacy from portal:  Libraries and the Academy (Project Muse)  SUMMARY

A Champion of Information Literacy from Online (Academic Search Premier)

Computer Literacy Doesn’t Mean Information Literacy, Report Says  from The Chronicle of Higher Education – Wired Campus

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants from On the Horizon  SUMMARY

Doctoral Students’ Engagement with Information:  An America-Australian Perspective from portal:  Libraries and the Academy (Project Muse)

Enhancing Information Literacy in an Interdisciplinary Collaboration from Journal of Technology in Human Services (Academic Search Premier)

The Future of Information Literacy in Academic Libraries:  A Delphi Study from portal:  Libraries and the Academy (Project Muse)

The Impact of Low-Level Skills on Information-Seeking Behavior:  Implications of Competency theory for Research and Practice from Reference & User Services Quarterly (Academic Search Premier)

The Importance of Information Literacy from Exchanges: The Online Journal of Teaching and Learning in the CSU  SUMMARY

Incoming First Year Undergraduate Students:  How Information Literate Are They?  from Education for Information (Academic Search Premier)

Information Literacy from College Teaching (Academic Search Premier)

Information Literacy and the Undergraduate Curriculum from Library Trends  SUMMARY

Information Literacy as a Liberal Art from Educom Review  SUMMARY

Information Literacy at Augustana:  A Programmatic Approach from Communications in Information Literacy

The Information Literacy Debate from The Journal of Academic Librarianship  (Academic Search Premier)

Information Literacy in Higher Education:  A Review and Case Study from Studies in Higher Education  (Academic Search Premier)

Information Literacy-Related Student Behaviors from College & Research Libraries News

Infusing Information Literacy into the Core Curriculum:  A Pilot Project at the University of Nevada, Reno from portal:  Libraries and the Academy (Project Muse)  SUMMARY

Librarians and Cross-Sector Teamwork from ARL Bimonthly Report

Making Problem-Based Learning Work:  Institutional Challenges from portal:  Libraries and the Academy (Project Muse)

Making the Leap from High School to College:  Three new Studies about Information Literacy Skills of First-Year College Students from Knowledge Quest (Academic Search Premier)

New Allies in the Fight Against Research by Googling  from Chronicle of Higher Education (Academic Search Premier)

Not Enough Time in the Library from The Chronicle of Higher Education  SUMMARY

Of Course It’s True:  I Saw It on the Internet – Critical Thinking in the Internet Era in Communications of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (Academic Search Premier)   SUMMARY

The Relationship Between Undergraduates’ Background Characteristics and College Experiences and Their Academic Library Use from College & Research Libraries  SUMMARY   SUMMARY2

Sociocultural Learning Theories and information Literacy Teaching Activities in Higher Education from Reference & User Services Quarterly (Academic Search Premier)

Stakeholders and Strategies in Information Fluency from Transformations – Liberal Arts in the Digital Age  SUMMARY

Student Information Research Skills:  Report on a Quebec Study on Information Literacy from Feliciter (Academic Search Premier)

Turning Techno-Savvy into Info-Savvy:  Authentically Integrating Information Literacy into the College Curriculum from The Journal of Academic Librarianship (Academic Search Premier)

21st Century Learning and Information Literacy from Change (Academic Search Premier) SUMMARY

Undergraduate Perceptions of Information Literacy: Defining, Attaining, and Self-Assessing Skills from College & Research Libraries

The What and Who of Information Literacy and Critical Thinking in Higher Education from portal: Libraries and the Academy (Project Muse)  SUMMARY

 

 

 

 

Online Articles