Mobile Information Literacy: Supporting Students’ Research and Information Needs in a Mobile World

Abstract

Mobile devices have changed everyday life and they have had a great impact in higher education. This article describes a pilot project in which an academic librarian at Lehman College, City University of New York, taught information literacy exclusively via mobile devices. The concept of mobile information literacy is also reviewed, and its role in current and future teaching practices is evaluated. Lessons learned from this project tell us that mobile information literacy, albeit in its infancy, could play an essential part in students’ learning, and therefore academic librarians could incorporate it as part of their practice.

KEYWORDS:

• mobile literacy
• mobile information literacy
• mobile learning
• information literacy
• mlearning, mobile devices
• smartphones

Acknowledgments

©Stefanie Havelka