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Information Literacy: Information Literacy Framework

The purpose of this guide is to provide information on information literacy programming at Copley Library. For more information, see the instruction page of our website: https://www.sandiego.edu/library/services/library-instruction.php

Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

Adopted by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Board of Directors, January 2016.

 

The ACRL Framework is based on a "cluster of interconnected core concepts" and divided into six frames. The six frames below are listed alphabetically and are not intended to be in a particular order or suggest a hierarchy:

Authority Is Constructed and Contextual

Information Creation as a Process 

Information Has Value 

Research as Inquiry 

Scholarship as Conversation 

Searching as Strategic Exploration

The frames are each divided into Knowledge Practices and Dispositions. See the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy Toolkit for ideas about how to engage the Framework as well as strategies for using it.