The competitive environment in which university libraries operate and provide their services and resources is one of the biggest challenges to engage today’s undergraduate students. There is a limited amount of high quality attention and time students have, to be able to be engaged with what the library offers them. Planning and designing library awareness and information literacy programs, par...

The environment in which nurses and rehabilitation therapists practice is rapidly evolving, resulting in changes in the skill sets and competencies required of new graduates. Evidence-based practice models, for example, require that entry-level nurses, physical therapists, and occupational therapists have the ability to identify, locate, and critically appraise research findings. This paper wil...

This paper demonstrates how information literacy is a hidden attribute woven throughout CEAB’s recent accreditation criteria. The paper focuses in particular on life-long learning and describes how such a model can be developed and transferred in different engineering programs.

Thomas P. Mackey is Interim Dean in the Center for Distance Learning at SUNY Empire State College; e-mail: [email protected]. Trudi E. Jacobson is Head of User Education Programs in the University Libraries of University at Albany, SUNY; e-mail: [email protected]. © Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson Social media environments and online communities are innovative collaborative te...

Health education and health literacy programs have implications on health care policy and health care status insurance. There are many benefits of a transition from disease management to a health care system, which includes priorities in prediction, prevention, and health education. Health care and disease management could best be implemented by multiple-tier, market-oriented models of universa...

Health literacy is a relatively new concept in health promotion. It is a composite term to describe a range of outcomes to health education and communication activities. From this perspective, health education is directed towards improving health literacy. This paper identifies the failings of past educational programs to address social and economic determinants of health, and traces the subseq...