ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


332 I C&RL News ■ May 1998

In t h e

While most of us would agree that it is 
important to be information literate and to 
integrate the teaching o f information literacy 
into the curriculum, it may appear to be 
daunting to get such a large collaborative 
project underway.

In this issue Cerise Oberman, Betsy Wil­
son, and Bonnie Gratch Lindauer share with 
us some very practical tools to begin work­
ing on an integrated information literacy pro­
gram.

Cerise and Betsy have developed an in­
novative information literacy IQ (Institutional 
Quotient) test. The simple, true-false test, re­
produced on pages 348-349, is designed to 
determine the readiness o f your institution 
to integrate information literacy into the cur­
riculum.

Your score provides you with a relative 
ranking that can be used with an accom pa­
nying chart o f suggested actions to help you 
move your institution’s information literacy 
program forward.

When developing a program, it is always 
helpful to know about activities taking place 
at other institutions. Betsy has identified in­
stitutions with the best practices or model 
information literacy programs (page 351).

Bonnie has compiled a set of core infor­
mation literacy competencies/outcomes for 
undergraduates (page 350).

We hope these tools will help you take 
your institution’s information literacy program 
to the next level.

Also in this issue is the proposed revision 
to the “ACRL Media Resource Guidelines” 
(page 357). The committee has worked hard 
to develop them and would appreciate your 
comments.

ACRL has a full complement o f programs 
and meetings planned for the ALA Annual 
C onference in Washington, D.C., in Ju ne. 
Check out the special insert listing them and 
plan to attend the conference.

— Mary Ellen K. Davis
E d it o r -in - c h ie f medavis@ala.org

mailto:medavis@ala.org