The University Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts co-sponsor UIII, which is a program, in partnership with faculty, to achieve greater information literacy for University of Iowa students. Effective learning about information retrieval, use and analysis is tied to a particular information need, often discipline-specific. The most effective way to reach students is through collaboration between the Libraries and academic departments and faculty in integrating information skills into the curriculum and evaluating outcomes through a variety of means.
Students have different learning styles and acquire information in different ways.
Any information literacy program must accommodate these differences by using a variety of approaches that provide practice in these skills. Faculty and teaching assistants can use this UIII web site to obtain ideas about how to provide students with important information seeking and evaluation skills for particular courses. Links are provided to assignments and class activities that promote information literacy as well as to other universities' information literacy programs. A link to the UI Libraries Gateway to Online Resources provides easy access to a wealth of valuable information resources both bibliographic databases and high quality web sites. The suite of information literacy skills and concepts can be integrated individually or as a whole into appropriate courses.