Approaches to providing information literacy training in higher education: Challenges for librarians |
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| Authors: | Mark Hepworth |
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| Institution: | Department of Information Science , Loughborough University , Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK E-mail: M.Hepworth@lboro.ac.uk |
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| Abstract: | This paper maps the domain of information literacy and provides a guide as to what areas the phrase includes. Delivering training in aspects of information literacy has been central to the role of user services in academic libraries for many years. However there are other aspects of information literacy that do not form part of this tradition. Having described the remit of the phrase different approaches to incorporating information literacy training in the curriculum are described and placed on a continuum ranging from discrete ‘stand alone’ training solutions to the integration information literacy into the subject based learning of the student. Challenges that face educators and librarians in particular are discussed. |
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