Academic Librarians' Involvement in Promoting Information Literacy in Higher Institutions of Learning

Advances in information communication technologies have made information literacy a required skill for the 21st-century community. The reason is that members of the 21st-century society are often inundated and overwhelmed by the quantities and forms of information available and accessible to them. Consequently, they need to acquire lifelong learning skills that could help them to possess proficiencies for identifying, accessing, evaluating, and using information effectively and efficiently. Librarians, having acknowledged the academic and socioeconomic values of information literacy, adopt various approaches to impart their skills to various categories of information users. Particularly, in academic institutions, librarians adopt different methods to teach information literacy to make students lifelong learners. Some approaches to imparting information literacy skills involved designing information literacy programs, conducting workshops, collaborating with faculty to integrate information literacy into the curriculum, and so on. This paper aims to look into the many strategies academic librarians employ to help students become information literate and how these programs affect their academic achievement.