Annotated Bibliography

As with other professional fields of study, scholarly journals play an important role within the world of information literacy. Peer-reviewed journals report on original research to make this information accessible to the information literacy community, including instructors, librarians, and students. Journal articles may discuss practical application of instruction techniques in classrooms, present research to further discussion, or offer thoughts from leaders in the field. For this journal analysis, I reviewed three publications relevant to the field of information literacy: Journal of Information Literacy, Communications in Information Literacy, and Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. The oldest of the three publications,

In a similar vein, an article titled “Experiencing Research Firsthand: The ‘unClassroom’ Experiential Learning Approach to Teaching Research Methods in an LIS Master's Program” describes how LIS master’s students learned important research methods through participating in research projects for outside clients (Mandel, 2017). The authors of “Opportunities and Challenges for Students in an Online Seminar-Style Course in LIS Education: A Qualitative Case Study,” an article in the Fall 2016 issue of JELIS, examined at how class dialogue and discussion is affected when it takes place in an online environment instead of in a face-to-face classroom setting (Farooq & Matteson, 2016). While the articles in JELIS address many aspects of information literacy, they do so largely within the scope of higher education or professional

The Journal of Information Literacy (JIL) is the professional publication of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), a United Kingdom-based professional body for information professionals working in the United Kingdom. Accordingly, the editorial board includes mostly representatives from the United Kingdom, with one each from the United States and Sweden. JIL is published twice yearly, with its mission being to “investigate information literacy in all its forms to address the interests of diverse IL communities of practice” (Journal of Information Literacy, n.d.). JIL’s editor-in-chief since 2015, Dr. Emma Noonan, is an information and digital literacies librarian who helped to develop the ‘A New Curriculum for Information Literacy’ (ANCIL) framework (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 2017). The journal’s editorial board includes information professionals and senior lecturers from various universities who have published works on information literacy topics such as digital collaboration, technology training, and digital literacy in school libraries. Interestingly, JIL is an open access resource, accessible to anyone without cost. JIL states that their organization believes that “making research freely available to the public supports a greater