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The article focuses on the role of librarians in United States as information professionals to ensure the understanding of the value of employing a fact-based criterion for evaluating resources. Topics include disregard for facts in news and by political leaders in the U.S. , the use of information literacy in providing us with diverse perspective to work within academic communities, and the combination of information literacy and archiving.

The article discusses various ideas on how to engage faculty with the academic library. Topics include the suggestion to provide information literacy training to the faculty, reference to a paper by Marjorie V. White published in the 2003 issue of the journal "Reference Librarian," in which he discusses reasons why faculty members may be averse to attending library instruction sessions, and academic librarians more capable of teaching students and faculty about information literacy.

The article discusses the results of a study that examined Texas Christian University faculty members' expectations and perceptions of undergraduate student research skills to help improve information literacy initiatives at the university. The faculty members surveyed viewed themselves as having the primary role in teaching research skills to the students. Focus groups identified nine core research skills that were used for the survey, including topic selection and citing sources.

The article describes the backward design process of planning instruction that can be adopted by librarians. The process begins by reflecting about the end of the course and identifying the student learning outcomes to be targeted. Librarians can easily apply the strategy in a variety of instructional situations and communicate the value of information literacy instruction to stakeholders. The backward design process based on L. Dee Fink's course design model requires three steps to follow.

The article offers information on making place for makerspace in the information literacy. It discusses how librarians can use makerspaces to create unique pedagogical opportunities to develop practical real-world skills and enhance knowledge transfer. It mentions as a part of its Libraries Transform campaign, the American Library Association (ALA) has added 3D printers, laser cutters to the list of library materials in order to promote information literacy.

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The author discusses the ethical implications of studying and analyzing user reference data. He says that the library literature make a strong case for a pedagogical approach to reference work. The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education introduced concepts that link reference and information literacy practice to student research and inquiry. Some authors were mentioned who made arguments for assessing the outcomes of one-on-one reference or reference consultations.

The article presents a study on search transaction logs examination from web-scale discovery tools conducted at Indiana University campuses. Topics discussed include collecting search queries from transaction logs, categorizing queries based on the Library of Congress Classification schedules, and subjects and skills that teaching faculty and librarians communicate for improving information literacy instruction.

A personal narrative of author's experience with information literacy in current government is presented.

The article presents a discussion with experts on information literacy, who discuss information literacy in business and at workplace, including Elizabeth Malafi, coordinator of the Miller Business Center, Grace Liu, Stephane Goldstein, Executive Director at InformAll CIC. Topics include work order at public libraries, queries about career options and assistance to librarians, and decision making.

The article explores the use of information literacy in public libraries in the U.S. It describes the impact of the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) on information literacy. Also discussed is the effectiveness of information literacy in fighting fake news and bias and logical fallacies.

Information literacy is a crucial skill in library science. As experts in information literacy, librarians are able to both use and promote techniques relevant to finding, evaluating, and presenting information. They are relied on by end users to provide the most pertinent resources, and are expected to do so as part of their jobs. This study describes how librarians applied their professional background in the evaluation of student peer-to-peer material in order to provide the most appropriate content for an introductory college success course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the use of a library survival guide for incoming college freshmen in mitigating library anxiety and familiarizing the students with the library resources and services. Topics discussed include the significance of raising awareness on the use of library resources and services to information literacy, the challenge faced by librarians on library complacency, and the struggles of librarians on the marketing of library collections and services.

The article discusses the attitudes of librarian towards humor in the classroom setting. Topics discussed include the book "Humor and Information Literacy: Practical Techniques for Library Instruction," the use of humor to reduce the library anxiety, and the advantages of applying humor during the information literacy and library instruction.

In keeping with this month's theme of trustworthy information, the editors of this column have written about the ways that libraries have capitalized on the currency of this topic to [...]