Teaching Informaiton Literacy in Academic Libraries

Topic 4. Information Literacy

• What is Information Literacy?

• What models exist and how do they compare?

• How do models of information literacy compare across the disciplines?

• How do I build my own mental model of information literacy?

• Can information literacy be taught? How?

• Is the teaching of information literacy having an impact on what learners know and do?

• What findings from research illuminate practice?