Learning Information Literacy Across the Curriculum (LILAC) and its impacts on student digital literacies and learning across the humanities

摘要

College students need information literacy skills-they need the ability to locate and evaluate sources, and to extract and apply information from them-but research shows that most students lack these skills. A nation-wide research project entitled Learning Information Literacy Across the Curriculum (LILAC) is evaluating students' attitudes and research behaviors in hopes of understanding students' existing information literacy skills and developing pedagogical interventions to increase students' information-seeking and -using abilities. The research described in this article incorporates surveys and observations of students engaged in information-seeking tasks.