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Adopt a Common Language:
Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

Librarians, like teaching faculty, aspire to teach students to find, interpret, and produce information that is valued in academia. Together, we can do so by exposing students to six frames of understanding in the first-year, milestone, capstone, and graduate courses that you teach. Those frames are:

		Scholarship as Conversation Research matures over time and through sustained discourse amongst researchers. Learn more			Information Creation as a Process Research is a unique iterative process, which is reflected in a person's work. Learn more
		Information Has Value Legal and socioeconomic interests influence information gathering and distribution. Learn more			Research as Inquiry Each question in the research process builds on the previous one and paves way for the next. Learn more
		Authority Is Constructed and Contextual Information is judged in part based on its creator’s credibility and is applied in context. Learn more			Searching as Strategic Exploration Research works best when approached with an open, flexible mind. Learn more

“Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.” Association of College and Research Libraries, 11 Jan. 2016, http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework. Accessed 21 June 2016.

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