Faculty perception of information literacy at Queensborough Community College

Abstract

This study examines how faculty perceived information literacy classes provided by Queensborough Community College. A survey was distributed in the spring of 2017 via faculty e-mail. The survey focused on the faculty’s department affiliation, usage of information literacy (IL) instruction, and how they value the IL instruction. The results revealed that the highest proportion of faculty members who brought their students to the library and found it the most useful were the English and the Speech department, while faculty in the STEM fields were least likely to utilize the library instruction because they found it was irrelevant to their courses.

Keywords:

• Faculty perception
• information literacy
• community college

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1 Bibliographic instruction was the terminology of the 2000 study; when referring to the current work, the authors use information literacy (IL).

2 N value unavailable due to its exclusion from the original text.