Information Literacy Study

Twelve CUNY libraries have been awarded a 2007-2008 CUNY Collaborative Incentive Grant (CIRG) for the topic “Information Literacy, Critical Thinking, and Technology: Gathering Data on CUNY Students' Performance on Scenario Tasks Assessing ICT Skills.” The $40,000 grant will be used to administer the ETS iSkils test to just under 150 students per campus during the spring semester.

Teresa McManus ( Bronx ) leads the project. Other participating librarians are Jerry Bornstein (Baruch), Alexandra de Luise (Queens), Jane Devine (LaGuardia), Lisa Ellis (Baruch), Jeanne Galvin (Queensborough), Karl Madden (Medgar Evers), Karen Mason (Medgar Evers), Mariana Regalado (Brooklyn), Ellen Sexton (John Jay), Tess Tobin (City Tech), Susan Voge (Lehman), Stephanie Walker (Brooklyn), and Lucinda Zoe (Hostos).