Why is information literacy important for the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library?
Michelle and Shauna: Research has shown that it’s not enough to simply provide the information resources. People need to be given skills and strategies to ensure these resources are found, accessed, and used effectively. You can buy the most high-end, sophisticated exercise equipment in the world, but you’re not going to get fit unless you know how to use it, and use it correctly. Through the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library, we’ve provided access to a vast number of high quality scholarly resources, but unless our users have information literacy support, they aren’t going to be able to use those resources to their full potential. What is the role of the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library Information Literacy and Awareness Committee (LILAC)? Michelle: LILAC committee members are librarians representing the spectrum of institutions involved in the LHCADL initiative, and each of us has a particular interest in information literacy. Our role is to liaise with the LHCADL inst
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