ALA/ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Anthropology and Sociology Students
Also available from American Sociological Association's Website
American Library Association's ACRL Information Literacy and Instruction standards
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No? then you may want plan a library research component for your research methods or other classes to address some of these issues.
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Preliminary documents for your consideration:
Middle States Commission on Higher Education in its Characteristics of Excellence in Higher Education: Requirements of Affiliation and Standards for Accreditation, [Online Version updated March 2009 http://www.msche.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/RevisedStandardsFINAL.pdf (p. 42)] defines information literacy in the following terms: “Several skills collectively referred to as “information literacy,” apply to all disciplines in an institution’s curricula. These skills relate to a student’s competency in acquiring and processing information in the search for understanding, whether that information is sought in or through the facilities of a library, through practica, as a result of field experiments, by communications with experts in professional communities, or by other means. Therefore, information literacy is an essential component of any educational program at the graduate or undergraduate levels. These skills include the ability to:
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