Davida Scharf
I am the Director of Reference and Instructional Services at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Van Houten Library, a position I have held since April 2004. I serve as the library's liaison to the departments of Humanities, History, Computer Science, Information Systems and Information Technology. I served on the National Advisory Board to the Educational Testing Service's iSkills Assessment.
I have worked in academia, corporate, and non-profit sectors in the areas of library administration and information management, database development, technology, strategic planning, and research.
Research interests:
I am interested in critical thinking, information literacy instruction and assessment, online communications, knowledge management and digital libraries.
Phone: 973-642-4397
Address: Van Houten Library
323 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Newark, NJ 07102
I have worked in academia, corporate, and non-profit sectors in the areas of library administration and information management, database development, technology, strategic planning, and research.
Research interests:
I am interested in critical thinking, information literacy instruction and assessment, online communications, knowledge management and digital libraries.
Phone: 973-642-4397
Address: Van Houten Library
323 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Newark, NJ 07102
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information literacy in higher education, given
the prevalence of the Information Literacy
Competency Standards in the library
profession for the past 15 years, and the heated
debate that took place regarding whether the
Framework for Information Literacy and the
Standards could harmoniously co-exist. We do
not have answers to these questions, but we
offer our perspectives on how the Standards
have served academic librarians in the past and
on how we envision the Framework and the
Standards working together to further
information literacy instruction. Our
conclusion is that the Framework and the
Standards serve different purposes and have
different intended audiences and are thus both
valuable to the profession.
information literacy in higher education, given
the prevalence of the Information Literacy
Competency Standards in the library
profession for the past 15 years, and the heated
debate that took place regarding whether the
Framework for Information Literacy and the
Standards could harmoniously co-exist. We do
not have answers to these questions, but we
offer our perspectives on how the Standards
have served academic librarians in the past and
on how we envision the Framework and the
Standards working together to further
information literacy instruction. Our
conclusion is that the Framework and the
Standards serve different purposes and have
different intended audiences and are thus both
valuable to the profession.