REFRAMING THE FRAMEWORK: SITUATED INFORMATION LITERACY IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM

Abstract

Perhaps the story of your orientation to information literacy is similar to mine. It begins with some confusion: "Information literacy? What is that, exactly?" After a course or two in library school on teaching or information literacy (if you're lucky), you are thrown into the trenches of your early professional career. Then, in fifty-minute spurts, you must attempt to engage bored undergraduates in the finer points of keyword searching and Boolean logic, all in the name of this thing called "information literacy." As your confidence and experience grow, you realize that teaching can be immensely rewarding, even fun, and that information literacy is a complex and multi-faceted concept that encompasses far more that simply training in library search skills.