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The PIL research report that started it all:
“Assigning Inquiry: How Handouts for Research Assignments Guide Today's College Students,” Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg, Project Information Literacy Progress Report, University of Washington's Information School, July 13, 2010. A nation-wide study showed that the majority of sample handouts for researach assignments did not adequately guide students to finding and using information. http://projectinfolit.org/
Information Literacy Standards:
"Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education," by Association of College & Research Libraries, a Division of American Library Association, approved on January 18, 2000, at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association in San Antonio, Texas.
Relevant articles:
"Librarians and teaching faculty certainly have an obligation to encourage good, thorough research...but they also have a responsibility to serve students -- and that means understanding the limitations of library idealism in practice, and acting pragmatically when necessary."