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The Future of Information Literacy

Explore the evolving landscape of Information Literacy (IL) through expert insights on collaboration, relevance, and assessment. Identify barriers, opportunities, and future trends. Learn how to enhance IL through communication, assessment, threshold concepts, metadata, and research consultations.

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The Future of Information Literacy

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  1. The Future of Information Literacy Laura Saunders NELIG 2013 Philips Andover Academy

  2. IL: What & Why?

  3. Who is interested?

  4. The Current Picture Opportunities & Challenges

  5. Areas of Convergence: Opportunities • Wide recognition of importance of IL • Relevance • Collaboration • Integration • Mission alignment

  6. What the experts say • Collaboration is key • Move past search and retrieval • Define and demonstrate relevance • Importance of assessment

  7. What are the barriers? Commonly identified: resources, faculty reticence/attitude, lack of common vocabulary, lack of role definitions…

  8. What comes Next? Charting the Future

  9. Faculty Perspectives Common Concersn Disciplinary Divergences

  10. Focal Points of Instruction

  11. How do we access our opportunities… …What are the solutions?

  12. Areas of Opportunity • Communication: • The language of faculty • Il in the disciplines • Beyond retrieval to evaluation • Assessment as opportunity

  13. Trends: Instruction • Threshold concepts: transformative & troublesome! • Metadata & findability • Good searches use database structure • Format as process • Authority is constructed & contextual • ‘Primary source’ is an exact and conditional category • Information as commodity • Research solves problems • Evaluation & Skepticism

  14. Trends: Outreach & Integration • Embedding • Research Consultations • Focus on faculty

  15. Taking the Lead

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