Date of Award

5-25-2022

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Education (EdD)

Department

Education

First Advisor

Amanda Nolen

Abstract

Today’s information environment is profoundly different from that of previous generations. The information excess of the 21st century requires information consumers to have a honed set of skills to be successful in their information seeking behaviors in academic, workforce and everyday life. This study used a mixed method, concurrent, exploratory design to investigate secondary and postsecondary library staffs’ perceptions of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Frameworks to close the information literacy gap. Library staff, in this study, perceived both levels’ frameworks as very important and very relevant to their educational level of employment and perceived both levels’ frameworks should largely be introduced and mastered by the student at the secondary educational level. These findings suggest library staff providing information literacy and library instruction to students are contributing to information overload, but library staff who practiced at both educational levels are better calibrated to determine the skill’s importance/relevance and introduction/mastery for the educational level of the learner.

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