[Web4lib] New Study Profiles the Information Literacy Efforts of 12 North American College

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Primary Research Group has published a new edition of TRAINING COLLEGE  
STUDENTS IN INFORMATION LITERACY, the 2006-07 Edition (ISBN-1-57440- 081-9) The  
report profiles the information literacy efforts of a broad range of North  
American colleges including: Syracuse University, the University of North  
Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Windsor, Ulster County Community  College, 
the University of North Texas, the University of California Berkeley,  the 
University of Southern California at Los Angeles, the University of North  
Carolina Wilmington, Southeastern Oklahoma University, Central Connecticut State  
University and Seattle Pacific University.  
Participants discuss how they promote information literacy at their  
institutions, how they win support of key faculty and administrators, and how  they 
develop courses, guidelines, tutorials and standards.  Other major issues 
include student  assessment, instructor training, integration of info literacy into 
other  curriculums, grants and institutional financial support, the impact of 
new  educational technologies, and the role of learning and computer centers 
in  supporting the info literacy effort, among other issues.  
Indiana  University library officials discuss  info literacy efforts for 
specialized populations, such as athletes, while  librarians at the University of  
California,  Berkeley explain their grant funded  information literacy 
outreach program that reaches all corners of the  University.  
University of North Texas librarians relate how they are  developing special 
classrooms to ready themselves for the likely move towards  more formal 
information literacy classes, while faculty at Ulster County  Community College 
explain how the college developed a required information  literacy course that is 
delivered through traditional means and through the  college’s distance 
learning program.   
Instructional library faculty at North Carolina State Wilmington explain  the 
political process of getting a required information literacy course approved  
at their university, while Seattle Pacific University librarians discuss the  
challenges of student assessment.  
As North American colleges move towards mandated information literacy  
courses, this study can help information literacy coordinators to reduce the  time 
and effort involved in developing courses and tutorials, and assist them  in  
dealing with in-house politics  and in finding useful institutional models and 
best practices.  
For more information about the study view our website at 
_www.primaryresearch.com_ (http://www.primaryresearch.com/) .