Due to maintenance issues requiring urgent repair, Wiggins Memorial Library and Starbucks will be closed for the remainder of the day today, November 12, 2026. Librarians will be available to assist students until 10pm via our chat reference service at library.campbell.edu/ask. The overnight study area will be closed until further notice as well.

Adopt a Common Language: Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

Librarians, like teaching faculty, aspire to teach students to find, interpret, and produce information that is valued in academia. Together, we can do so by exposing students to six frames of understanding in the first-year, milestone, capstone, and graduate courses that you teach. Those frames are:

Scholarship as Conversation

Research matures over time and through sustained discourse amongst researchers.
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Information Creation as a Process

Research is a unique iterative process, which is reflected in a person's work.
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Information Has Value

Legal and socioeconomic interests influence information gathering and distribution.
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Research as Inquiry

Each question in the research process builds on the previous one and paves way for the next.
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Authority Is Constructed and Contextual

Information is judged in part based on its creator’s credibility and is applied in context.
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Searching as Strategic Exploration

Research works best when approached with an open, flexible mind.
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“Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.” Association of College and Research Libraries, 11 Jan. 2016, https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework. Accessed 21 June 2016.

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