A cross-institutional partnership approach to information literacy enhancement

Abstract

While it is an international trend to integrate information literacy into the university curriculum, it is not yet a standard practice in Hong Kong.Furthermore, there is currently no territory wide stipulation on information literacy in Hong Kong higher education, and concepts of information literacy remain unfamiliar to the university community.This paper describes the first large scale cross-institutional project that aims to enhance information literacy in Hong Kong higher education through firstly assessing information literacy education needs of students across eight institutions, and then to use such data with input from faculties to inform the development of a shared interactive multimedia information literacy courseware and selfassessment tool."Course Enhancement Funds" will also be provided to individual courses to promote faculty-librarian partnerships for embedding information literacy elements into them.To deepen information literacy embedment, a professional capacity building programme will be organised to aid librarians from participating institutions in building collaborative partnerships with faculties.By using a broad, evidence-based approach, through cross-institutional partnership, to provide relevant learning experiences appropriate for local student needs and collaborating with faculties across the eight largest higher education institutions in Hong Kong, the project seeks to bring about a paradigm shift in Hong Kong higher education leading to a valuing of information literacy among university management and faculty, and in-depth embedment of information literacy into the university curricula.

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