These guidelines identify the information literacy and information technology skills critical in providing the foundation for information competence.
Information literacy forms the basis for lifelong learning.
It is common to all disciplines, to all learning environments, and to all levels of education. It enables learners to master content and to extend their investigations, become self-directed, and assume greater control over their own learning. Facility with computer hardware and software, as well as the ability to apply these technologies to find, access, and deliver information is crucial to the overall development of information literacy. The University recognizes that finding and using information is a basic way to engage students in academic discourse and to prepare them for life-long learning. Information literacy skills will allow students to think critically in solving information problems.