President Obama signs Information Literacy Proclamation

President Obama proclaimed October 2009 as National Information Literacy Awareness month and by doing so calls "upon the people of the United States to recognize the important role information plays in our daily lives, and appreciate the need for a greater understanding of its impact." An information literate person understands when information is needed to solve a problem and knows where to find information and how to evaluate and use the information. Here at the department of ITLS we have been teaching information literacy skills for years as part of our School Library Media Administration endorsement program. Information literacy is beginning to appear in some of our other courses such as INST4010 and INST6870/7870. Interested in learning more about information literacy? Check out the information literacy module developed by Heather Leary, one of our doctoral students.