On the Draft Framework for Information Literacy

By Barbara Fister. When the Standards for Information Literacy Competency in Higher Education came out in 2000, I thought they were a step forward. We were broadening our concept of information literacy, which was (at last) far more than the nuts and bolts of how to use a library. I thought at the time that it made it very clear that information literacy had to be a campus-wide endeavor, not a library project. Read more...