This study documents the information literacy skills of college freshmen at a mid-size comprehensive university.
It also examines the association between students' information literacy skills and theirwriting abilities aswell as
their overall performance in a class. Amajor finding of the study is that information literacy skills were positively
correlated with both student writing scores and final course grades. The findings of this study call for wellintegrated
library instruction programs and services to improve student information literacy skills.