The SEAM works collaboratively with faculty and instructors to help students develop information literacy skills in support of academic course work and lifelong learning goals. We believe that information literacy is an integral part of a liberal arts education. Our profession has been actively engaged with developing a definition of information literacy for higher education for many years. Currently, the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education offers this definition:
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.
Faculty and instructor inquiries can be sent to Cathy Cranston: cathy-cranston@uiowa.edu