The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education: Implications for Health Sciences Librarianship

Abstract

The Association of College and Research Libraries is developing a new framework of information literacy concepts that will revise and replace the previously adopted standards. This framework consists of six threshold concepts that are more flexible than the original standards, and that work to identify both the function and the feelings behind information literacy education practices. This column outlines the new tentative framework with an eye toward its implications for health sciences libraries, and suggests ways the medical library community might work with this new document.

KEYWORDS:

• ACRL framework
• Association of College and Research Libraries
• educational competencies
• health sciences librarians
• information literacy
• threshold concepts

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Maureen Knapp

Maureen Knapp, MA, AHIP ([email protected]) is Research Support & Education Librarian, Rudolph Matas Library of the Health Sciences, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112. Stewart Brower, MLIS, AHIP ([email protected]) is Director, Schusterman Library, The University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, 4502 East 41st Street, Tulsa, OK 74135.