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Bibliographies

Readings for Faculty and Administration

Breivik, Patricia Senn. Information Literacy for the Skeptical Library Director. (accessed 12 Feb 2007)

Breivik, Patricia Senn, “Information Literacy and the Engaged Campus,” AAHE Bulletin (November 2000) (accessed 12 Feb 2007)

Breivik, Patricia Senn. (1998). Student Learning in the Information Age. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press.

Bruce, Christine.  Seven Faces of Information Literacy in Higher Education  (Queensland University of Technology) (accessed 12 Feb 2007).

Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy (accessed 12 Feb 2007) Edited by Drew Smith and sponsored by the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida, is a comprehensive information literacy-focused resource.

Grafstein, Ann. (2002). A Discipline-Based Approach to Information Literacy. Journal of Academic Librarianship 28(4):197-204.

Horton, Forest Woody, Jr.  Understanding Information Literacy: A Primer.  UNESCO, 2008.

Information Literacy: Developing Students as Independent Learners , edited by D.W. Farmer and Terrence F. Mech. (New Directions for Higher Education; no. 78) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.

Information Literacy Issues and Initiatives in Education, Government, Business and Industry: A bibliography of Articles and Items from Non-Library Literature. (2000) (accessed 12 Feb 2007).  This annotated bibliography of articles and other resources compiled by Carolyn F. Norman, Denise Sims, Ann Thornton, and Dawn Vaughn, allows us to view the literature from a non-library perspective.

Leckie, Gloria J. "Desperately Seeking Citations: Uncovering Faculty Assumptions about the Undergraduate Research Process." Journal of Academic Librarianship (May 1996) pp.201-208.

Plotnick, Eric. (1999). Information Literacy.  [ERIC Digest]  ED 427777.

Shapiro, Jeremy J. and Shelley K. Hughes. “Information Literacy as a Liberal Art.” Educom Review (March/April, 1996)

Spitzer, Kathleen L., Eisenberg, Michael B., and Lowe, Carrie A. (1998) "Information Literacy: Essential Skills for the Information Age " [ERIC document]  ED 427780

The history of library and bibliographic instruction can be followed by using one or more the following resources:

  • Increasing the Teaching Role of Academic Libraries (1984) edited by Thomas G. Kirk. (New Directions for Teaching and Learning; no. 18) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Although this publication predates the computer revolution, the discussions which relate to use of print resources apply equally to electronic resources.
  • Lockwood, Deborah L. (1979) Library Instruction; a Bibliography . Westport, CO: Greenwood Press.
  • Tucker, John Mark. (1980) "User Education in American Libraries: a Century in Retrospect," Library Trends 29(1):9-27.

See also our Accreditation Bibliography.







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