Information literacy programs: successes and challenges

Discusses role of the information literacy movement, focusing on teaching and managing library instruction in colleges and universities; collaboration, assessment, learning styles, and information literacy standards; US; 12 articles. Contents: Changing landscapes, enduring values: making the transition from bibliographic instruction to information literacy, by Elizabeth O. Hutchins, Barbara Fister, and Kris (Huber) MacPherson; The sum is greater than the parts: cross-institutional collaboration for information literacy in academic libraries, by Charity B. Hope and Christina A. Peterson; Technology and innovation in library instruction management, by Beth S. Woodard and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe; We're all in this together: planning and leading a retreat for teaching librarians, by Anna Litten; The politics of pedagogy: expectations and reality for information literacy in librarianship, by Rebecca Albrecht and Sara Baron; Using the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education to assess a university library instruction program, by Jeanne R. Davidson, Paula S. McMillen, and Laurel S. Maughan; Collaborating to advance curriculum-based information literacy initiatives, by Austin Booth and Carole Ann Fabian; Leading information literacy programs: immersion and beyond, by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay and Sara Baron; The radical syllabus: a participatory approach to bibliographic instruction, by Sherri B. Saines; Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue; active learning in the classroom, by Patricia R. Krajewski and Vivienne B. Piroli; Teaching information literacy to Generation Y, by Kate Manuel; Buoyed by a rising tide: information literacy sails into the curriculum on the currents of evidence-based medicine and professional competency objectives, by Richard B. Kaplan and Julia S. Whelan.