An Information Literacy Future

Maybe respond to attacks on information literacy in Chronicle, maybe to Wilder's article that Information literacy makes the wrong assumptions: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i18/18b01301.htm

ACRL standards not great and set the skills-based tone. They are not horrible and they are the best we got.

Information literacy is not just seeking skills and this is not just library skills.

It's not about the technology. Maybe look up print example? The library 2.0 hype verges on Technological Determinism.

Searching skills seem easy, but it is planning, evaluating, using that seems tougher. We need to move information literacy into the hands of subject faculty members

Information Economy--> Bell, Drucker, Creativity, labor force in the information economy

1) Critical Thinking

2) Epistemological Skills

3) Creativity

Ways to develop thinking skills

Credibility commons?

Library 2.0 is not just about online interactive services, but especially for academics, this is about information literacy. It needs to be about learning.