Resources for Faculty and Librarians

National Standards

Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline (Association of College and Research Libraries)
Chemical Information Retrieval (American Chemical Society)
Developing research & communication skills : guidelines for information literacy in the curriculum. Executive summary ( Middle States Commission on Higher Education) LB2361.M62 D48 2003 Suppl.
Guidelines for Instruction Programs in Academic Libraries (Association of College and Research Libraries)
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (Association of College and Research Libraries)
Information Literacy in the Disciplines Guidelines (Association of College and Research Libraries)
Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction: A Model Statement for Academic Librarians (Association of College and Research Libraries)
What should faculty and administrators know about information literacy programs? (Association of College and Research Libraries)

Library Tutorials & Guides

Resources for Teaching and Learning

Selected Readings:

Shapiro, J. J. And Hughes, S.K. Information Literacy as a Liberal Art. EDUCOM Review 31(March/April, 1996):2
Thompson, Gary B. "Information Literacy Accreditation Mandates: What They Mean for Faculty and Librarians." Library Trends 51.2 (2002): 218.
Ratteray, Oswald M. T. "Information Literacy in Self-Study and Accreditation." Journal of Academic Librarianship 28.6 (2002): 368.
Ilene F. Rockman The Importance of Information Literacy. Exchanges, the CSU's on-line journal of teaching and learning