Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions
Thought provoking article by Stanley Wilder of the University of Rochester from this week's Chronicle of Higher Education . I'm sure there will be lots of discussion making the rounds.
Excerpt:
"...information literacy remains the wrong solution to the wrong problem facing librarianship. It mistakes the nature of the Internet threat, and it offers a response at odds with higher education's traditional mission. Information literacy does nothing to help libraries compete with the Internet, and it should be discarded."
The above link for the article might be temporary but all campuses should have the Chronicle and it is available in FT from Academic Search Premier and Research Library with a one month embargo.
Update 1/12/05: The temporary link to the article is indeed dead. But it is in the issue of the Chronicle dated 1/7/05. I'll update again when it has served it's time in FT purgatory.
Excerpt:
"...information literacy remains the wrong solution to the wrong problem facing librarianship. It mistakes the nature of the Internet threat, and it offers a response at odds with higher education's traditional mission. Information literacy does nothing to help libraries compete with the Internet, and it should be discarded."
The above link for the article might be temporary but all campuses should have the Chronicle and it is available in FT from Academic Search Premier and Research Library with a one month embargo.
Update 1/12/05: The temporary link to the article is indeed dead. But it is in the issue of the Chronicle dated 1/7/05. I'll update again when it has served it's time in FT purgatory.
posted by David at 9:24 AM
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