General Education Information Literacy at Millersville University

This guide has been assembled to enable easy access to materials that will facilitate your teaching of information literacy across the General Education curriculum. The librarians welcome feedback and collaboration to ensure that the guide meets your teaching needs and capitalizes upon the teaching strategies and assignments which you are already using in your classrooms. We have assembled best practices from our own library instruction at Millersville and from other sources, tailoring the library's learning outcomes to best fit the First Year Experience and Gateway Information Literacy.

IL Definition for Gateway Information Literacies Courses

Information literacy is a set of integrated abilities requiring students to recognize when and what information is needed and to locate, evaluate, and effectively use the needed information to participate ethically in communities of learning and/or practice. Students proficient in information literacy critically reflect on the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the creation, access, and use of information. As a result, students will be able to incorporate new understandings into their perspectives, questions, or works (academic, professional, or creative).