Empowering students through information literacy in the physical and virtual classrooms : Cross-institutional collaboration between library and faculty and between two Scandinavian university libraries

The aim of this paper is to show how the library can contribute to student empowerment, with a focus on collaboration and partnership in the whole process of designing and implementing an information literacy (IL) user education programme. It is argued that information literacy is only one component in the overall learning process and the library is just one partner in empowering the students. True collaboration is thus essential to ensure student empowerment.

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