1. To utilize various teaching strategies and methodologies to meet individual differences in learning, including level, style, and culture as recommended in the Information Literacy Competency Standards of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
   
2. To present instruction in formal and informal settings, to respond to the total educational process of the academic community.
   
3. To promote lifelong learning by the teaching of concepts over skills. Focus is placed on instructional methods that will help users learn, select, and evaluate library materials appropriate to their needs.

Service Priorities

1. Emphasis is placed on the teaching of concepts over library skills to educate information literate lifelong learners.
2. Course-integrated instruction is paramount and must be connected with a real academic need; therefore, instruction is more effective than stand-alone information literacy courses or disconnected tours and library orientations.
3. To show the importance and value of instruction, faculty members must attend the instruction session, unless other arrangements are made with the liaison librarian.
4. The librarians' goals must be interconnected with the faculty's course goals and curricular needs.
5. Information literacy instruction and any further student activity must help to achieve a faculty member's course objectives.

Service Mandates

1. Helping students and faculty acquire and use information literate research strategies is our primary responsibility
   
2. Helping staff acquire and use information literate research strategies is our secondary responsibility
   
3. Helping alumni and community patrons acquire and use information literate research strategies will happen as time and resources permit.

Accompanying Documents & Procedures

• ACRL/ALA Information Literacy homepage
• Information Literacy Standards Toolkit -- Step-by-step introduction to each of the 5 Standards, the Performance Indicators for each Standard and the Outcomes for each Performance Indicator from ACRL
• Information Literacy for Faculty and Administrators -- general information on Information Literacy from ALA
• Information Literacy - Instructional Guidelines -- Albright College guidelines for requesting instructional sessions
• Gingrich Guide -- self-paced web tutorial for teaching information literacy at Albright College, aimed at first year students