Journal Article: “Information Literacy Skill Mastery Across the Undergraduate Degree: An Examination of First-Generation and Continuing-Generation Students”
The article linked below was recently published by The Journal of Academic Librarianship.
Title
Authors
Sarah LeMire
Texas A&M University
Zhihong Xu
Texas A&M University
Leroy G. Dorsey
Texas A&M University
Douglas Hahn
Texas A&M University
Source
The Journal of Academic Librarianship
Volume 50, Issue 5
September 2024
DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102932
Abstract
Library information literacy efforts are often heavily concentrated at the first-year level. This study examined undergraduate information literacy skills across all four years of college, revealing that information literacy skill development is not linear across class years. This finding suggests that librarians should not assume that students past their first year will no longer need information literacy support. Further, results revealed that, by the upper division level, first-generation students make considerable progress toward closing information literacy knowledge gaps in comparison with their first-generation peers. However, additional support in the areas of source evaluation and scholarly communication is likely to be helpful, even for upper-division students.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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