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CUNYwide Research Management Workshop

This Thursday May 5th, all CUNY library faculty, faculty, and staff are invited to attend a day of workshops at Hunter College on the new Web of Knowledge, EndNote, and other research management tools from Thomson Reuters. 

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Welcome!

Welcome to the new blog for LILAC: the Library Information Literacy Advisory Committee of CUNY. Starting immediately, this becomes a live blog that will reflect the collaborative nature of libraries and the interest librarians have in information literacy at the City University. This blog will allow all to submit comments that can become a part […]

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Information Literacy Standards for CUNY Students

Published November, 2010 The Library Information Literacy Advisory Council has put forward a set of information literacy learning goals and objectives for CUNY students to achieve by the time they have completed 60 credits. The purpose is to ensure that our efforts at information literacy fully articulate within CUNY. These learning objectives have been approved […]

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About LILAC

As of Spring 2024, LILAC has an updated webpage. Please visit https://cunylilac.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ LILAC is a CUNY library faculty committee formed to promote the integration of information literacy across the City University of New York (CUNY). Established by the Council of Chief Librarians and the University Librarian in 2004, it grows out of an ongoing interest […]

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Standards

Accreditation Agencies Middle States Commission on Higher Education CUNY’s accrediting body.  Information Literacy and Accreditation Agencies (Association of College & Research Libraries) Reviews the presence of information literacy in various accreditation standards. Information Literacy Standards — Middle States Characteristics of Excellence in Higher Education Middle States’ standards for accreditation, revised 2011. They require information literacy […]

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About Information Literacy

“Information literacy is defined as a process by which students come to Recognize when they have a need for information Identify the kinds of information needed to address a given problem or issue Develop a search strategy and find and evaluate the needed information Organize the information and use it effectively to address the problem […]

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Tools

Inside the Library Classroom Working with Faculty (in the disciplines) Further Reading

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