Integrating AIL components into assessments requires close collaboration
between a subject specialist (academic) and academic learning
specialist (learning adviser) (Hocking & Fieldhouse, 2011) and subject
specialist (academic) and an information specialist (librarian) (Wang,
2011). Information specialists, learning specialists and academics therefore
share responsibility to develop AIL skills. Their collaboration supports
best practice in integrating information literacy (Association of
College and Research Libraries, 2003; Hocking & Fieldhouse, 2011,
Ivey, 2013; Woodward, 2015). The collaboration “fosters the sharing
of ideas and provides opportunities for exposure to different pedagogies
as well as new teaching/learning techniques … Students benefit, as well,
from exposure to varying teaching styles, classroom input and educational
approaches” (Hunt & Birks, 2004, p. 31).