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The Libraries Faculty Seminar Committee hosted a workshop with information literacy researcher, Dr. Ross Todd, on May 13 2010. Dr. Todd is the director of the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries and a professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers. His day-long presentation and workshop was titled,  New Foundations: Building an Inquiry-Based Information Literacy Agenda, and introduced attendees to approaches to information literacy underpinned by constructivist learning theory. Dr. Sharon Weiner, the coordinator of the Symposium program, reported, “There was a lot of excitement and enthusiasm about new ways of thinking about information literacy.”

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