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College Information Literacy Efforts Benchmarks presents
the results of an information literacy higher education
benchmarking study. More than 110 colleges from the
United States and Canada participated in the study; data is
broken out by size and type of college, for public and private
colleges, for US and Canadian colleges, and even by number of
in-class instructional sessions given. Uniquely, this
report also breaks out data separately at institutions at
which librarians have faculty status, and at which those where
they do not.
The 175 page study presents an enormous wealth of often
completely unique statistics, including data on: use of
library personnel for instruction, instructional work load,
change in number of presentations or classes, Assessment of
skill level of students in the following areas: Boolean
searching, evaluation of website information credibility,
recognition of plagiarism, use of the online library catalog,
use of search engines, use of periodicals databases, and use
of eBook collections; frequency of issuing tests to assess
student skills in Access, Excel, Word, Windows and other
common programs, frequency of use of information literacy
tests of various kinds for incoming freshmen and transferees;
percentage of colleges that require an information and/or
computer literacy test for graduation, means of performance
assessment for information literacy and other library science
instructors, use of librarian and instructor assessment forms;
length of time spent in information literacy sessions, role of
information literacy in student orientations and
introductions, percentage of colleges that offer
information literacy services through a distance learning
student orientation and much much more.
Available April 2008
