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Information Competency

The Library maintains its strong commitment to information competency by meeting the campus vision, mission, and ethics, as well as those prescribed by the Library itself through its library instruction program.

The following sites are provided for you as a means of informing you of the effort underway to support Information Literacy Competency Standards for the California Community Colleges and in Higher Education.

I. Information Competency in California Community Colleges

Information Competency: Challenges and Strategies for Development
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges

II. Information Competency in Higher Education

Cal Poly University Pomona Information Literacy Resources

Children's Partnership
A national, nonprofit child advocacy organization, which promotes research on various issues that affect children and young people.

CSU campus Library Information Competence Pages
Links to CSU Library Information Competence pages.

Information Competency                                                                       
An extensive list of information competency links maintained by a librarian at Cabrillo College.

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
The ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) web page that has links to the standards and role that information competency has in higher education.

Integration of Learning Outcomes
Information competency as it pertains to learning outcomes.  Arranged by discipline from Accounting to Women’s Studies; can also be accessed by student level.

III. Online Tutorial

Santa Ana College Information Competency Tutorial
A series of modules that guides the user through the process of using online databases and the Web.  Each module concludes with an exercise.

Last update: October 7, 2010