Instructional Design & Outreach Librarian
Kate Johnson
she/her/hers
Subjects: Accounting, All Subjects/Multidisciplinary, Business/Finance, Communication/Journalism, Criminal Justice, Education/Special Education, English/Literature, First Year Experience, History, Languages, Marketing, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology/Counseling, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sociology, Theology/Religion
Welcome!
Information literacy is the ability to recognize the need for information and be able to locate, evaluate, and use the information effectively.
- In your daily life, this may mean typing "online flower delivery" into Google when your sibling reminds you your mom's birthday is tomorrow or using a site like Snopes or PolitiFact to fact check a social media news item you think sounds questionable.
- In your college career, this means knowing where to look for scholarly sources for your research papers, background information on a topic covered in class you don't understand, and even how to find a book in the library.
The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy and the Six Major Frames. From: Burress, T., Clark, M., Hernandez, S., & Myhill, N. (2015, June).
Wikipedia: Teaching Metaliteracy in the Digital Landscape [poster]. Presented at the ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition, San Francisco.