The easy availability of information on the World Wide
Web adds urgency to the need to teach information literacy concepts
and skills to students. The author led a team of faculty and graduate
teaching assistants in an information literacy pilot project at the
University of Nevada, Reno, in the spring of 2000. This article reviews
planning, execution, and student/faculty assessments of the project,
discusses future plans based on the project's results, and relates the
UNR experience to librarians' subsequent efforts to promote information
literacy.
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