Information Literacy Core Values
The mission of the Jessie C. Eury Library is to facilitate the teaching, research and lifelong learning of its students and faculty by assessing, anticipating, and providing essential resources, services, and instruction. The foundation for achieving this mission is our information literacy program. This program is an integral part of the library’s contribution to assist Lincoln Christian University in achieving its strategic plan. The program helps both the University meet their learning objectives and fulfill the information literacy criteria of their accrediting agencies.
Core Values
• We believe that information literacy is not an end in itself, but rather a means to equip a student to be a lifelong learner. Without information literacy, lifelong learning cannot occur.
• We believe that information literacy empowers a student to locate, evaluate, and communicate information now and in the future.
• We believe that information literacy instruction should teach foundational, transferable concepts for lifelong learning.
• We believe that information literacy should be planned across the curriculum to facilitate the strategic introduction, reinforcement, and expansion of information literacy concepts.
• We believe that information literacy instruction must support faculty learning objectives. Students learn information literacy best in the context of course assignments.
• We believe that information literacy can best be achieved through collaboration and partnership between librarians and classroom faculty.
• We believe that information literacy should permeate the library’s philosophy, programming, and planning.
Therefore:
• We pledge to continue to teach information literacy to students, in and out of the classroom, in partnership with classroom faculty.
• We pledge to assess our program, using the outcomes in the national Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, to ensure that our instruction meets student and faculty needs.
• We pledge to develop course web pages in conjunction with in-class information literacy instruction.
• We pledge to offer assistance in the development of assignments that reinforce information literacy concepts while achieving the professor’s goals for the course.
• We pledge to maintain an information literacy focus on the library’s Web site so it can be used to reinforce students’ skills.
• We pledge to welcome faculty input about how else we can help!
Our vision is that this information literacy program, accomplished in collaboration with faculty, will become a hallmark of Lincoln Christian University. Our graduates, trained in information literacy, will be recognized as exemplary lifelong learners, just as they are currently recognized for their mission-mindedness and worldview eyes.