Research Guides: Core Academic Skills Faculty Pack: Information Literacy: Bibiliography & Suggested Readings

Bibliography and Suggested Readings

Badke, W. (2008). A rationale for information literacy as a credit-bearing discipline. Journal of Information Literacy 2(1), 1-22.

Badke, W. (2009). How we failed the net generation. Online 33(4), 47-49.

Brown, K. (2016). Documented library contributions to student learning and success: Building evidence with team-based assessment in action campus projects. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries. http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/value/contributions_y2.pdf

Fielding, J. & Hans, J. & Mabee, F. & Tracy, K. & Consalvo, A. & Craig, L. (2013). Integrated information literacy and student outcomes in foundational first-year writing. Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness 3(2), 106-139.

Fisher, M., Goddu, M.K., & Keil, F. (2015). Searching for explanations: How the internet inflates estimates of internal knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology - General, 144(3), 674-687.

Freeman, E., & Lynd-Balta, E. (2010). Developing information literacy skills early in an undergraduate curriculum. College Teaching 58(3), 109-115.

Head, A. J. (2012). Learning curve: How college graduates solve information problems once they join the workplace. University of Washington. Seattle: Project Information Literacy. http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_fall2012_workplaceStudy_FullReport_Revised.pdf

Pariser, E. (2011). The filter bubble: What the Internet is hiding from you. New York: Penguin Press.

Vaidhyanathan, S. (2008). Generational myth. Chronicle Of Higher Education 55(4), B7.

Wiebe, T.J. (2016). The information literacy imperative in higher education. Liberal Education 101/102(4/1).

Wong, S. H., & Cmor, D. (2011). Measuring association between library instruction and graduation GPA. College & Research Libraries 72(5), 464-473.

Information Literacy Sites and Organizations

Association of College & Research Libraries: Resources for Information Literacy
Resources for advocacy, development, and application of information literacy instruction and programming to enhance teaching, learning, and research in the higher education community.
Project Information Literacy at the University of Washington
Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a large-scale, national study about early adults and their research habits, whose goal is to understand how early adults conceptualize and operationalize research activities for course work and "everyday life" use and especially how they resolve issues of credibility, authority, relevance, and currency in the digital age.
Journal of Information Literacy
Publishes research articles and project reports which push the boundaries of information literacy thinking in theory, practice and method, and which aim to develop deep and critical understandings of the role, contribution and impact of information literacies in everyday contexts, education and the workplace.
Communications in Information Literacy
Peer-reviewed journal devoted to advancing research, theory, and practice in the area of information literacy in higher education. CIL is an independent, professional, and open access publication.
Library Babel Fish
Inside Higher Ed blog Edited by Barbara Fister, noted author, librarian, and information literacy expert.
Information Literacy Weblog
Edited by Sheila Webber, faculty member in the Information School, University of Sheffield, UK and Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research.