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Press Release from Primary Research Group, Inc.
Primary Research Group has published a new edition of TRAINING COLLEGE
STUDENTS IN INFORMATION LITERACY, the 2006-07 Edition (ISBN-1-57440-
081-9) The report profiles the information literacy efforts of a broad range of North
American colleges including: Syracuse University, the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, the University of Windsor, Ulster County Community College, the
University of North Texas, the University of California Berkeley, the University of
Southern California at Los Angeles, the University of North Carolina Wilmington,
Southeastern Oklahoma University, Central Connecticut State University and Seattle
Pacific University.
Participants discuss how they promote information literacy at their institutions, how they
win support of key faculty and administrators, and how they develop courses, guidelines,
tutorials and standards. Other major issues include student assessment, instructor training,
integration of info literacy into other curriculums, grants and institutional financial
support, the impact of new educational technologies, and the role of learning and
computer centers in supporting the info literacy effort, among other issues.
Indiana University library officials discuss info literacy efforts for specialized
populations, such as athletes, while librarians at the University of California, Berkeley
explain their grant funded information literacy outreach program that reaches all corners
of the University.
University of North Texas librarians relate how they are developing special classrooms to
ready themselves for the likely move towards more formal information literacy classes,
while faculty at Ulster County Community College explain how the college developed a
required information literacy course that is delivered through traditional means and
through the college’s distance learning program.
Instructional library faculty at North Carolina State Wilmington explain the political
process of getting a required information literacy course approved at their university,
while Seattle Pacific University librarians discuss the challenges of student assessment.
As North American colleges move towards mandated information literacy courses, this
study can help information literacy coordinators to reduce the time and effort involved in
developing courses and tutorials, and assist them in dealing with in-house politics and in
finding useful institutional models and best practices.
For more information about the study view our website at www.primaryresearch.com.
Training College Students in Information Literacy
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