Information Literacy: Discipline‐Specific or Core Competency?

Abstract

Building on the results of her 2005 survey of information literacy practices among American Slavic librarians, the author suggests that information literacy, as a theoretical approach to teaching research skills, has not been widely embraced by Slavic librarians. To a large part this is because Slavic studies is a highly specialized field, while information literacy programs tend to map to general education requirements. This article examines whether information literacy has any place in a subject discipline such as ours, and if so, how it should be taught. The author provides examples of discipline‐specific information literacy initiatives both from inside and outside the field of Slavic studies.

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