(via Sandra McCarthy, Washtenaw Community College)
The Nursing Information Literacy Framework Working Group is still seeking feedback on their draft Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Nursing. We thank you in advance for your input to ensure this document is thoughtful and useful.
Please access the various frames here. We have a Qualtrics survey open for your feedback also: click here (opens in new window). Our survey also includes an option to indicate you’d like to review subsequent drafts and associated appendix content (e.g., learning goals and activities, etc.). Thank you in advance for your important feedback.
In 2013, the ACRL Board of Directors approved the Information Literacy Competency Standards for Nursing. Then, in 2016, ACRL adopted the Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, which rescinded the overall Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (adopted in 2001). The ACRL Health Sciences Interest Group put out a call for working group members to develop a Framework companion document focused on Nursing in 2018, and that group has worked to better understand the position of information literacy within nursing education (see here), and how nursing faculty approach information literacy within instruction across a variety of institutions (see article here). The group has also worked to sort relevant literature as part of their process, sharing them to the HSIG LibGuide (see here).
While significant progress had been made by 2020 by the group, we had also heard by then that the AACN Essentials were undergoing revision. As a result of that, we paused long enough for the release of the revised Essentials and then got right back to work, using the Essentials to inform the draft we are now sharing with you. Our draft thus represents the synthesis of these efforts, the rich and varied experiences of committee members and their constituencies, and the desire to present a thoughtful and useful Nursing companion to the ACRL Framework.
Current Task Force Member:
- Bethany S. McGowan (co-chair), MLIS, MS, AHIP; Assistant Professor and Health Sciences Information Specialist, Purdue University, bmcgowa@purdue.edu
- Laureen P. Cantwell (co-chair), MSLIS; Head of Access Services & Outreach, Colorado Mesa University, lcantwell@coloradomesa.edu
- Jamie Conklin, MSLIS; Health Sciences Librarian & Liaison to Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, jconklin@unc.edu
- Francesca Frati, BFA, MLIS; Assistant Librarian, McGill University Libraries, francesca.frati@mcgill.ca
- Shannon Johnson, MLS; Director Library Academic Services, Purdue Fort Wayne, johnsons@pfw.edu
- Sandra C. McCarthy, MLIS, MA; Faculty Librarian, Washtenaw Community College, mccarthy@wccnet.edu
- Julie Planchon Wolf, MLIS; Research & Instruction/Nursing & Health Studies Librarian, University of Washington Bothell & Cascadia College, jspw@uw.edu
- Rebecca Raszewski, MS, AHIP; Associate Professor & Information Services & Liaison Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago, raszewr1@uic.edu
- Maribeth Slebodnik, BSN, MLS; Research & Learning Librarian, University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, slebodnik@email.arizona.edu