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Rethinking Information Literacy: A Practical Framework for Supporting Learning, edited by Jane Secker and Emma Coonan, London, Facet, 2013, xxx þ 169 pp., US$95.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-85604-822-4
Rethinking Information Literacy is a practical guide to a new framework for information literacy, stemming from a research base.
The 10 stranded information literacy framework (A New Curriculum for Information Literacy: ANCIL) was developed in the UK as a result of research conducted by editors Secker and Coonan through the Arcadia Project at the University of Cambridge. The project was driven by a concern that young people are taking a "cut and paste" approach to information use, and are often reluctant to question material in an overloaded environment. The resulting framework seeks to address these concerns by building independent learning and academic literacies in students, developing ethical elements of working with information, and communicating and synthesising...