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Education theory and concepts can have daunting barriers to become facts but in the case of CETYS Universidad the will to be competitive at an international level drove the seven-year decision to get successful U. S accreditation. This process placed libraries and information literacy (IL) in the forefront of management priorities. One of the steps to identify CETYS IL standing was to study faculty information demand and competencies. The results, as well as those from a bibliometric analysis, showed the limited use of information and information and communication technologies. This motivated the institution to look for strategies to support faculty in enriching classroom information and ICT use. The main decision was to create guidelines to align the curriculum with information literacy standards and to embed information literacy into the learning process, an outcome that will be ready by the summer of 2013.
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Lau, J., Gárate, A., Osuna, C. (2013). Walking from Concepts to Facts: A Holistic Information Literacy Approach Experience at the University Level. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R., Špiranec, S. (eds) Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice. ECIL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_39
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