A Few Updates on Previous Posts

By Barbara Fister. Not long ago I wrote about the debate between the Standards for Information Literacy Competency in Higher Education, adopted in 2000, and a new Framework for Information Literacy that takes quite a different shape and approach. The suspense is over. The framework was adopted at the midwinter meeting of the American Library Association. But because quite a few librarians felt we were rushing to abandon something they found useful for something they found less practical, we’re not replacing the Standards with the Framework, at least not yet. Read more...