The field of information literacy instruction, like much of academic librarianship, has
seen rapid change in the past generation. As research tools have moved primarily from
print sources to those which can be found online, instruction librarians have adopted a
variety of approaches to teach users where and how to locate relevant and reliable
information. Many libraries started initially by offering a “library tour”, in which a
librarian would show users where various collections were located in the building and
how to use them appropriately. This approach was effective as long as students
conducted all of their research in that specific library, and that library’s print collections
were enough to meet student research needs. Another means of instruction based on
print highlighted specific kinds of sources, namely, “scholarly” and “popular” articles,