According to the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), "information literacy is the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning."
The purpose of the John Stewart Memorial Library’s Information Literacy program is to support the teaching and learning process by providing students with the necessary information literacy skills to be effective critical thinkers and lifelong learners.
The library staff believes that both the 2000 Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education and the 2015 Framework for Information Literacy serve a valuable purpose in the development of information literacy skills as well as the critical pursuit of lifelong learning. The early standards illustrate the specific information literacy skills we want to impart to our students; while the more recent framework demonstrates how specific information literacy concepts relate to today’s complicated and ever-changing world of information.