Information literacy at Cabrini University equips students with the knowledge and dispositions to acquire, evaluate, use, and produce information critically, strategically, and ethically. Information literacy at Holy Spirit Library prepares students for academic success and supports them in becoming engaged citizens of the world, professional leaders, and lifelong learners.
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Information Literacy is a Cabrini University 21st-Century Literacy in which students graduate with these competencies:
Cabrini University Librarians recognize the Boyer Commission Report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education, which states that IL skills are best learned in situations where students are actively engaged in research or creative exploration to find answers. Courses that employ assignments in which problem solving and inquiry are a focus require IL skills.
What is information literacy?
Information literacy is the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning.
FINDING -- EVALUATING -- USING -- CREATING -- SHARING -- INFORMATION
Information Literacy Threshold Concepts:
"Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education", American Library Association, February 9, 2015. http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework
Librarians collaborate with faculty to create assignment-specific, point-of-need IL sessions and use technology to teach IL sessions. Often held in the Library’s ground floor IL lab, sessions engage students in using a variety of print and electronic information sources. Please request a session AT LEAST 10 DAYS prior to the requested date.
Library Hours
Mon- Thu 8am-10pm
Fri 8am-5pm
Sat Closed
Sun 12pm-6pm