Standard I
Standard II
Standard III
Standard IV
Standard V

ACRL's Information Literacy Standards with Goals and Outcomes for Knox College Students

Standard V: The information literate student understands many of the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information and accesses and uses information ethically and legally.

1. The information literate student understands many of the ethical, legal and socio-economic issues surrounding information and information technology.

Outcomes

• Identifies and understands issues related to privacy and security in both the print and electronic environments.
• Identifies and understands issues related to free vs. fee-based access to information.
• Identifies and understands issues related to censorship and freedom of speech.
• Demonstrates an understanding of intellectual property, copyright, and fair use of copyrighted material.
2. The information literate student understands and acknowledges laws, regulations, institutional policies, and etiquette related to the access and use of information resources.

Outcomes

• Follows accepted institutional practices when participating in electronic discussions.
• Complies with institutional policies and practices on access to information resources.
• Preserves the integrity of information resources, equipment, systems and facilities.
• Legally obtains, stores, and disseminates text, data, images, or sounds.
• Demonstrates an understanding of what constitutes plagiarism and does not represent work attributable to others as his/her own.
• Demonstrates an understanding of institutional policies related to human subjects research.
3. The information literate student attributes proper credit to information sources used to further scholarly communication.

Outcomes

• Selects an appropriate documentation style and uses it consistently to cite sources.
• Acquires and posts permission granted notices, as needed, for copyrighted material.