The mission of Olin Library’s Information Literacy Program is “to prepare our students to be successful lifelong learners within a technologically sophisticated and information-saturated society. Information alone, in all of its varied formats, will not bring about a knowledgeable and informed citizenry without mastery of the practical and conceptual skills needed to acquire, use, and evaluate information competently, ethically, and effectively. It is the mission of the Olin Library Information Literacy Program, in cooperation with departmental faculty, to teach a set of practical and conceptual information literacy skills to our students.”
To achieve this mission, library faculty will work with departmental faculty to incorporate information literacy goals into the classroom curriculum so that, upon graduation, Drury University students will have a solid understanding of:
1) The information cycle and its relationship to scholarly publication
2) How information is organized
3) The process of information discovery and evaluation
4) Strategies for accessing information from a variety of sources
5) The ethical use of information
