Information Literacy: A Neglected Core Competency
College students think of information seeking as a rote process and tend to use the same small set of information resources no matter their question.
Sharon Weiner
Biography
Dr. Weiner is Professor of Library Science and holds the position of W. Wayne Booker Chair in Information Literacy. She is Vice-President of the National Forum on Information Literacy. She is a member of the board of the journals, Practical Academic Librarianship and the Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research, and is editor of the column, “Information Literacy Beyond the Library†for the journal, College & Undergraduate Libraries. She has a doctorate in higher education leadership and policy studies from the Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University and a Masters in Library Science from the University at Buffalo. She has been the Dean of Library Services at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Director of Vanderbilt’s Peabody Library, and department head and faculty member in the University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library.EDUCAUSE Publications
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