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CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) announces the publication of “” by Michele Santamaría and Nicole Pfannenstiel, demonstrating how to engage students with and through social media platforms and teach them to embrace their role as information creators through engagement with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.

Teaching our students how to become flexible and accurate evaluators of information requires teaching them adaptable processes and not static heuristics. Our conventional information literacy teaching and learning tools are simply not up to tackling the life-long, real-world challenges and transferable applications required by today’s evolving information landscape.

"Information Literacy and Social Media" provides librarians and non-librarian practitioners with ways to teach and learn with social media. It addresses how to broadly conceptualize information literacy teaching with social media and allay any student reluctance to using social media for academic purposes. It proposes how to map some of the ACRL threshold concepts onto specific social media platforms, including Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, while providing general guidance for if and when those platforms change.

There are eight concrete, cross-disciplinary lesson plans that factor in design, assessment, and student engagement. These lesson plans offer multiple platform ideas so readers can remix the approach to suit their learning contexts. Finally, applying information literacy dispositions, the book considers how up-and-coming platforms might empower students to be critical content creators and encourage librarians and faculty to support and create new information literacy initiatives on their campuses. "Information Literacy and Social Media" can help you teach your students to be truly metaliterate in the creative and ethical ways that make information literacy an essential college competency.

“Information Literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the ACRL Framework” is available for purchase in and as an through the ������ýOnline Store; in print through Amazon.com; and by telephone order at (866) 746-7252 in the U.S. or (770) 442-8633 for international customers.

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The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) is the higher education association for academic libraries and library workers. Representing nearly 8,500 individuals and libraries, ACRL (a division of the ������ý) develops programs, products, and services to help those working in academic and research libraries learn, innovate, and lead within the academic community. Founded in 1940, ACRL is committed to advancing learning, transforming scholarship, and creating diverse and inclusive communities. Find ACRL on the , , , , , , and .