Information Literacy Program @ Skyline College

• PRIMO

  As a part of ACRL, the PRIMO Committee’s freely accessible database is an amalgam of teaching materials for instruction librarians. It contains tutorials on citation styles and management, intellectual property issues, effective research practices, and even materials for more specific subjects such as writing literature reviews. It also has learning tutorials for certain disciplines. The database can be used as inspiration for one’s instructional methods.
• Project CORA

  CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments) is similar to PRIMO in that it is an open access database dedicated to providing faculty and librarians with effective lesson plans or assignments involving research. These materials contain critical feedback from Project CORA's online community members and are great for engaging students with information resources.

Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a wide-ranging national study concerning young adults and their information seeking behaviors. These studies center around the lifelong learning habits of recent college graduates and their competencies in the workplace. Project leaders have included publications, research interests, and informative videos on PIL's website. Instruction librarians are encouraged to review these publications or other features to inform their teaching practices.

• College & Research Libraries is the official, bi-monthly, online-only scholarly research journal of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

• Communications in Information Literacy is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to research in IL, strategies for IL instruction (even within certain disciplines), as well as the development and impact of IL in higher education.

• Journal of Information Literacy publishes innovative and challenging research articles and project reports which push the boundaries of information literacy thinking in theory, practice and method, and which aim to develop deep and critical understandings of the role, contribution and impact of information literacies in everyday contexts, education and the workplace.