Burkhardt, Joanna M

Describes a four-step process for creating a comprehensive information literacy plan for libraries, outlining the preliminary steps, offering advice on how to prepare the writing group for its task, discussing the key points of the document, and covering assessment, maintenance, and promotion. Includes support material, model plans, and a CD-ROM.

"[Provides an] understanding of the six threshold concepts outlined in the [Association of College & Research Libraries'] 'Framework for information literacy for higher education' and on imaging how instructors might help students cross those thresholds. Another focus is on discovering how memory and transfer of learning apply to the teaching of information literacy"--Page xiii.

Contains thirty-five standards-based exercises designed to help college students learn the fundamentals of information literacy.