Program Overview

The role of the Information Literacy Program in the context of a teaching library is to encourage and facilitate life-long learning. In order to empower students in the pursuit of knowledge, the library faculty aims to teach them the skills of identifying, locating, and evaluating information.

The ILP librarians acknowledge that not all people learn in the same manner. Therefore, instruction is offered in a variety of formats. It may take the form of a classroom lecture, a printed handout for students, a tutorial, a course guide, or working one-to-one with students.

The success of our program is based on our understanding of curriculum and course objectives. The more we are involved in a course, the more effective our instruction, and our program, can be.

The program aims to accomplish the following goals:

1. To provide information literacy instruction to all students by incorporating activities into all General Education courses.
2. To provide course-integrated instruction in collaboration with the faculty and in alignment with course objectives and programmatic student learning outcomes. See some examples.
3. To provide orientation and consultation to faculty.
4. To provide outreach to the various student and community groups by offering opportunities such as workshops, seminars, lectures.