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Information Literacy

What is Information Literacy?

• "Information Literacy is the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information". From ACRL's Information Literacy Advisory Committee's website on Information Literacy.
• ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
• Applied example of the Standards from the ACRL Law and Political Science Section (PDF)
• Bibliographic Instruction versus Information Literacy

Putting IL into Practice

Source Evaluation

• Building State Capacity in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Case of the Brcko District
• The Hunt for a Murderer
• Dayton Accords A Decade Later
• Questioning the Bosnia Peace Plan

Evaluating Databases

• LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts

For more information, contact: Lynda Kellam or Amy Harris