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Guide to Information Literacy Instruction in Milne Library

Created by: Dr. Jeff Liles, former Library Instruction Coordinator, 2003

“Colleges and universities have long been known as producers and disseminators of information. Now these roles can be enhanced by promoting learning that ensures that people can take advantage of the information resources available to them. Such efforts can and should include both improving the ease of access to information and educating people to evaluate and use information effectively.”
--Patricia Senn Breivik, American Association for Higher Education

“Information literacy should be conceived more broadly as a new liberal art that extends from knowing how to use computers and access information to critical reflection on the nature of information itself, its technical infrastructure, nd its social, cultural and even philosophical context and impact - as essential to the mental framework of the information-age citizen as the trivium of basic liberal arts was to the educated person in medieval society.”
--Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes,"Information Literacy as a Liberal Art, "Educom Review, 31 (2) (March/April 1996)

What is Information Literacy?

Information Literacy at Geneseo

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