{"id":166,"date":"2013-01-16T17:38:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T16:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/?p=166"},"modified":"2013-01-16T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T16:38:50","slug":"information-literacy-efforts-benchmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/literacy-reading\/2013\/01\/16\/information-literacy-efforts-benchmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Literacy Efforts Benchmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large\"><strong>Information Literacy Efforts Benchmarks, 2013 Edition, ISBN 157440-214-5<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The 115 page study presents data from 60 North American colleges and universities about their academic library and institutional information literacy efforts.\u00a0 The study helps librarians and others to answer questions such as:\u00a0 What are staffing and staff time use trends in information literacy? How many more, or fewer students, will take information literacy oriented classes and sessions this year as compared to last year? \u00a0What software packages are favored for producing info literacy tutorials? How do instructors rate the information literacy skills of their students, before an after training? What is the role of information literacy testing? What about trends in information literacy assistance to faculty?\u00a0 What is the role of information literacy presentations at student orientations? What is the relationship like between library information literacy faculty and key academic departments? What percentage of colleges have formal information literacy requirements and what are these requirements? This is just a small sample of topic coverage.\u00a0 Just a few of the study&#8217;s many findings are that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">41.67% of college libraries in the sample participate in some kind of orientation or information literacy training class designed especially for online or distance learning students.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Just 5% of survey participants feel that upper college administrators consider information literacy a high priority.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">29.4% of four year colleges in the sample use student standardized test results to assess the performance results of information literacy instructors.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">12.5% of community colleges in the sample require an information literacy exam for graduation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">A third of the research universities in the sample have ever administered a test to assess student capacity to use the online library catalog.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Nearly two thirds of librarians sampled consider their students to be very unskilled in the use of eBook collections.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">About 39% of colleges in the sample with less than 2,500 students enrolled offer librarians faculty status.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">For research universities, library sessions in student orientation last a mean of only 12 minutes.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium\">25% of the private colleges in the sample plan to increase their investment over the next three years in equipment and space used for information literacy efforts.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Data in the report is broken out by size and types of college, by enrollment level and by number of information literacy classes or sessions given.\u00a0 A pdf version of the study is currently available from Primary Research Group Inc.\u00a0 A print version will be available on November 14<sup>th<\/sup>, and can be ordered now from Primary Research Group Inc. or from most library book wholesalers.\u00a0 The price for either version is $75.00; site licenses are also available. For a table of contents, free excerpt, or to place an order, view at www.PrimaryResearch.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Literacy Efforts Benchmarks, 2013 Edition, ISBN 157440-214-5\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 The 115 page study presents data from 60 North American colleges and universities about their academic library and institutional information literacy efforts.\u00a0 The study helps librarians and others to answer questions such as:\u00a0 What are staffing and staff time use trends in information literacy? 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