CSUN Information Literacy Survey Preliminary Results

Abstract

In July 2002, the U.S. Dept. of Education awarded the Oviatt Library at California State University, Northridge a five-year, $1.6 million grant under the Title V Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) program. Entitled, “Improving Student Success through Strengthening Library Collections, Archives, and Information Competence,” one of the objectives of the grant project focuses on creating and administering valid and reliable information literacy assessment tools to CSUN students. Our main hypotheses are: •[1] Students who have had previous library instruction will score better on the test questions than those who have not had previous library instruction. •[2] Students who report greater frequency of use of library collections and/or its electronic resources will score better on the test questions than those who do not.