Moving Forward - Reflecting On The Standards - Volume 7 - Issue 2 - Discussion on revising ACRL Information Literacy Standards

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PA Forward Information Literacy Summit convened Pennsylvania K-12 and academic librarians at Penn State University Park on July 24, 2013. The transcript captures a discussion among Ellysa Stern Cahoy, Craig Gibson, and Trudi Jacobson on how and why the ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education are being reviewed and revised. It explains the review process, key issues, and timelines, with discussion centered on standards originally adopted in 2000 and subsequent librarian feedback.

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Reflecting on the Standards [Transcript]

Moving Forward

Summit overview and purpose

Speakers and their roles

Discussion framework and transition to presentations

Volume 7, Issue 2, 2013 REFLECTING ON THE STANDARDS [TRANSCRIPT] MOVING FORWARD A discussion on the revision of the ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education Ellysa Stern Cahoy Penn State University Craig Gibson Ohio State University Trudi Jacobson University at Albany ABSTRACT The first PA Forward Information Literacy Summit was held in State College at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park campus, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. This summit brought together K-12 and academic librarians from Pennsylvania to discuss current issues in information literacy. This text is a transcript of a discussion between Ellysa Cahoy, past chair of the of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards Committee, and the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards Review Task Force, and Craig Gibson and Trudi Jacobson who are currently co-chairs of the ACRL Information Literacy Standards Revision Task Force. This Revision Task Force is charged with reviewing and revising the current ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, that were originally adopted by ACRL in 2000. This discussion was about the process by which the Standards came to be under review, some of the issues involved in the review, and the time line for the review and librarian feedback and comment on the process. The PowerPoint presentation which accompanied this discussion, as well as other documents mentioned during the presentation are attached to this transcript as supplemental files. Cahoy, Gibson & Jacobson, Moving Forward Communications in Information Literacy 7(2), 2013 Linda: All right, let’s get started with the second keynote address. It is my pleasure to introduce our next three speakers. We’ll be talking about possible changes to the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards. Interestingly enough, all three of our speakers have won the Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award. I’m not sure, but we think that this is a record for the number of Miriam Dudley awardees in one presentation. If you know otherwise, tell me. Ellysa Stern Cahoy is Education and Behavioral Sciences Librarian in the Penn State University Libraries, University Park, a former children’s librarian and school library media specialist. Ellysa has published research and presented on information literacy, evidence-based librarianship, and library instruction and personal archiving. In 2012, she was awarded a $143,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the exploration of faculty’s personal scholarly archiving practices and needs. Ellysa is past Chair of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards Committee and chaired the initial ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards Review Task Force. In 2013, Ellysa received the Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award. The next two speakers are participating via Skype. Craig Gibson is Associate Director for Research and Education at the Ohio State University where he is responsible for reference and research services, outreach and engagement, the library’s instruction program and departmental libraries. He’s been Associate University Librarian for Research, Instruction, and Outreach at George Mason University Libraries, and has held other positions in instruction and reference services at Washington State University and Lewis Clark State College. His current research interests focus on engagement measures for academic and research libraries. He’s taught in the ACRL Immersion Program since 2000, has been editor of the ACRL Publications in Librarianship Series since 1999, and is currently Co-Chair of the ACRL Information Literacy Standards Revision Task Force. Craig received the Miriam Dudley Instruction Award in 2008. Trudi Jacobson is the head of the Information Literacy Department at the University at Albany. She has been involved with information literacy initiatives for a number of years within ACRL, including serving as Chair of the Instr

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It is a transcript of a discussion about revising the ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education.

When and where was the PA Forward Information Literacy Summit held?

It was held on Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at Penn State University, University Park, in State College, Pennsylvania.

Why are the ACRL information literacy standards under review?

A revision task force is charged with reviewing and revising the standards that were originally adopted by ACRL in 2000, addressing the review process and issues involved.

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