Information Literacy Initiative for Psychology Students

Last spring the Psychology (Arts and Science) Department approved a motion ensuring that all psychology majors have an opportunity to attend a library research workshop. Starting this year, all Arts and Science sections of the Introduction to Research Methods (PSYC 2030) class will include a 1½ hour lecture hall presentation on literature searching and other aspects of information literacy. Effective literature searching is an integral part of the research process, and so library research instruction fits nicely into the curriculum of this course on research methods.

This second year class was strategically chosen for this initiative because it is a prerequisite for all psychology majors. This will mean that librarians will be able to offer all psychology undergraduates-a significant proportion of the York student body-some instruction in library research skills. During the 2004/05 academic year, Psychology (Arts and Science) will be offering eight sections of PSYC 2030, each with up to 125 students.

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