Information Literacy at Nicholls

Information Literacy

As part of our mission, a core function of Ellender Memorial Library is to promote "information literacy and bibliographic skills...through instruction." With this in mind, information literacy at Nicholls State University means thinking about how our students find, create, and interact with information in both their academic and private lives. Information literacy is defined by the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2015) as 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."

The Framework contains 6 frames:

• Authority is Constructed and Contextual
• Information Creation as Process
• Information Has Value
• Research as Inquiry
• Scholarship as Conversation
• Searching as Strategic Exploration

Outlined here are each frame along with the Big Questions (Wiggins and McTighe, 2005) asked by and Understandings known by an information literate person. Additionally, each frame has a set of student learning outcomes associated with it.