More complex skills will be integrated naturally into and across the curriculum. Please be specific, using examples from your own teaching if possible. Students need to have information-seeking skills required throughout the curriculum. The best way to ensure that this happens is for faculty, librarians, and other information professionals to work together in partnership. Students need to engage in using information technology to write papers, to seek information, to find and manipulate information, to communicate with each other electronically, and in-person.
Ethical issues are important in an increasingly electronic environment, too.
Graduate students can facilitate learning for faculty by showing them what they have learned. Although many libraries offer drop-in classes such as a series of sequenced World Wide Web classes, information seeking skills are best learned in the context of a course assignment. The learning and discovery are then part of a larger context of meaning within the academic curriculum. Because of the organization and administrative structure of some organizations in higher education, there is a particular challenge in expanding instructional services to insure that information literacy and information technology literacy are integrated into the curriculum. Partnership with faculty may not come easily because of structure and governing issues, and librarians may need to expand their strategies in terms of outreach to campus partners, taking a broader view of the academic mission than they may have in the past.