Information Literacy Instruction

Introduction

In their 1989 Final Report, the ALA’s Presidential Committee on Information Literacy called information literacy a ‘survival skill.’ This is even more true two decades later as technology has changed library participants’ knowledge acquisition behavior. Participants now acquire their information from the Internet and information literacy is essential when using the Internet as a research tool. Library participants are acquiring knowledge from a medium in which anyone can write anything they want, true or false, anonymously and without consequences. This method of acquisition is threatening the epistemological protection librarians have long been providing. There is a variety of successful methods available for information literacy ...