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Good Morning! On the index card, please: 1. Guess the number of electronic databases

to which Lavery Library currently subscribes. 2. Write your own, brief definition of

Information Literacy 3. Choose two major fields of study at Fisher

that are most foreign to you:(Nursing OR Business OR Education OR English)

IL@FISHERKathi Sigler, Instruction Librarian

January 9, 2008

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The Middle States Commission on Higher

Education

Defines information literacy as an intellectual framework for identifying, finding, understanding, evaluating, and using information.

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Association of College and Research Libraries

The information literate student: Determines information needs Finds possible research sources Evaluates the quality of the sources Uses information purposefully Using information for a specific

purpose Uses information legally and

ethically

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The K-12 IL Connection: The student who is information literate

accesses information efficiently and effectively.

The student who is information literate evaluates information critically and competently.

The student who is information literate uses information accurately and creatively.

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SJFC & Information Literacy

1997 Interface to Knowledge for Lavery

2000 ITILT (Information Technology and Information Literacy Team)

2003 PETAL and Librarians create Information Literacy Goals for SJFC students

2004 Information Literacy Working Group

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Current IL Efforts at SJFC

First Year Program Pilot areas for imbedded standards:

nursing, education, sports studies Upper division course library

sessions, as requested Individual student & faculty

consults

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Who Teachers IL?

TWO POSSIBLE MODELS : COMPARTMENTAL (stand-alone)

OR

INTEGRATED **

**Middle States encourages a common sense approach to information literacy; a collaborative effort between librarians and faculty

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Sources Association of College and Research Libraries:

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/infolitstandards

Middle States Commission on Higher Education: http://www.msache.org/publications.asp

American Association of School Librarians:http://weblink.scsd.us/~liblinks/AASLstandards.pdf

St. John Fisher Lavery Library Faculty Resources:http://library.sjfc.edu/il/

cartoon: www.schools.tdsb.on.ca/albertcampbell

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Reality Check