ABSTRACT
Information literacy skills are crucial to academic achievement and professional and personal success in today’s information-rich world. Academic librarians struggle to find appropriate strategies to teach information literacy skills to college freshmen who typically expect instant gratification of their information needs,1 and while experienced with technology, they may lack the ability to articulate research questions, analyze sources, and think critically about the research process. When students do not find the information they seek, they tend to assume the resource is inadequate rather than critically examine their own search strategies.2 One of the challenges of effective information literacy instruction is crafting a learning experience that engages students and leads them to critically examine their own research process.
