Document Type
Book Chapter
Role
Author
Published In
Teaching Information Literacy by Discipline: Using and Creating Adaptations of the Framework
Publisher
Association of College and Research Libraries
First Page
165
Last Page
174
Publication Date
9-2025
Abstract
In 2018, the Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) Social Work Committee (the committee) began drafting its companion document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. It responded to the ACRL Information Literacy Frameworks and Standards Committee’s charge to utilize the Framework in context with the education standards, goals, and competencies within their respective disciplines by highlighting synergies between the Framework and the accreditation standards associated with social work schools and programs in the United States. The committee would also choose to connect the Framework to social work’s professional Code of Ethics in an attempt to advocate that information literacy must be practiced beyond the academy. This chapter describes the committee’s two-year process to create its companion document as well as the reception of the companion document among librarians and social work educators.
Keywords
social work education, information literacy, library pedagogy, professional competencies
Suggested Citation
Maher, S., Feng, Y., Castello, O. G., Graves, C., & Johnson, S. (2025). Information Literacy Within and Beyond the Academy: Connecting the Framework to Social Work’s Accreditation Standards and Professional Code of Ethics. In S. Libson & M. Willey (Eds.), Teaching Information Literacy by Discipline: Using and Creating Adaptations of the Framework (pp. 165–174). Association of College & Research Libraries. https://alastore.ala.org/teaching-information-literacy-discipline-using-and-creating-adaptations-framework
