The New National School Library Standards: Implications for Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education

Gerrity, Caitlin

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2018.05.005

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“…One impetus for this project was my own ignorance of, and desire to understand, the range of research and IL instruction experiences our first-year students have before they arrive at Arcadia University. This desire is reflected in the common theme in the literature that calls for high school and college librarians to communicate more about what students need to know and be able to do, and plan ways to reach those goals (Gerrity, 2018;Saunders, Severyn, & Caron, 2017;Varlejs & Stec, 2014). Surveying and interviewing librarians who work in schools from which this university routinely draws students has revealed that, even at the local level, students' experiences vary widely.…”

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What Do High School Students Know About Information Literacy? A Case Study of One University’s Feeder Schools

Correll¹

2019

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This article describes a local study that seeks to illuminate first-year college students’ prior experiences with research and information literacy (IL) during high school. A small, suburban university surveyed and conducted interviews with librarians at the university’s feeder schools. The high school librarians rated students’ levels of proficiency in IL skills and described their school’s IL programs. Overall, librarians rated students’ IL levels as less than proficient and described several challenges to helping students improve these competencies, including teacher resistance, assignment design, and students’ habits around information. Opportunities exist for academic and school librarians to collaborate to improve IL instruction as well as to emphasize IL in teacher education programs.

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What Do High School Students Know About Information Literacy? A Case Study of One University’s Feeder Schools

Correll¹

2019

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“…Student attainment of information literacy is a goal of both the ACRL and the AASL that has yet to be fully realized. While researchers (e.g., Chaudhry & Choo, 2001;Hutcherson, 2004;Redfern, 2004;Schaub, Cadeno, Bravender, & Kierkus, 2017) who explored literacy instruction in the academic setting found that students begin their college experience with a basic understanding of information literacy language, recently, researchers have demonstrated that many students enter higher education non-proficient in information literacy skills (Gerrity, 2018;Gross & Latham, 2012;Varleejs, Stec, & Kwon, 2014). While many factors that influence student attainment of information literacy, the extent to which formal definitions of information literacy agree and provide a scaffold for increasing information literacy competency has the potential to affect student success in school and in the workplace.…”

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The Information Literacy Continuum

Burns¹,

Gross²,

Latham³

2021

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The Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the American Association for School Libraries (AASL), two major divisions of the American Library Association (ALA), both recently released new guidelines. These documents form the basis for information literacy and library skills instruction for PK-20 education. In this study, we explored the alignment between these documents to identify the continuum of knowledge and skill expectations as well as the dispositional attributes toward information literacy that learners are presented. Our findings identified where the content of the ACRL Framework and AASL Standards Framework for Learners documents is strongly aligned as well as the gaps in the teaching and learning continuum. These findings suggest areas for ongoing development in practical application for both PK-12 school librarians and academic librarians who provide information literacy instruction in colleges and universities.

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“…Last but not least, IL of K-12 students who reach a university-level learning environment based on the new National School Library Standards of the American Associate of School Libraries (AASL) stress the importance of extending IL skills to collaborative working environments. Recent research has revealed that current K-12 students often cannot apply knowledge to real-world contexts or work with people from diverse backgrounds (Gerrity, 2018; Diekema et al , 2019). The new AASL National School Library Standards emphasize the importance of developing IL abilities to establish connections with other learners, build on their prior knowledge and create new knowledge.…”

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Relating library user education to business students’ information needs and learning practices: a comparative study

Zhang¹,

Lo²,

So³

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Purpose The paper aims to investigate current library instruction programs to help business students make better use of library resources and improve their information. However, students’ information acquisition ability, library usage and their perception toward library user education are inevitably changing along with the rapidly evolving information landscape as well as the socio-cultural environment driven by information technologies. Design/methodology/approach For this study, 90 business students from three different majors at the Faculty of Business and Economics, the University of Hong Kong were invited to participate in the online survey for comparison. Findings The findings of this study suggest that the subjects, in general, recognized the importance of library user instruction. However, when the subjects encountered difficulties in information searching, they preferred to use search engines (such as Google) and seek help from their classmates. Practical implications The results of this study show that there were distinctive differences in library usage and views toward library instruction among students of three different majors. This study sheds light on the feasible actions of academic libraries to enhance library user instruction services and improve the IL skills among business students. Originality/value Although there is much research about the library instruction of academic libraries, scant research focuses on library usage and views toward library instruction of business students, especially on the comparison among different business majors.

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The New National School Library Standards: Implications for Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

What Do High School Students Know About Information Literacy? A Case Study of One University’s Feeder Schools

What Do High School Students Know About Information Literacy? A Case Study of One University’s Feeder Schools

The Information Literacy Continuum

Relating library user education to business students’ information needs and learning practices: a comparative study

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